The creation of philosophical tradition : biography and the reception of Avicenna's philosophy from the eleventh to the fourteenth century A.D. / Ahmed H. al-Rahim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Al-Rahim, Ahmed H., author.

Contributor:

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Series:

Diskurse der Arabistik ; Bd. 21.

Diskurse der Arabistik ; Band 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Islamic philosophy.

History.

Islamic philosophy--History--To 1500.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Avicenna.

Avicenna, 980-1037--Influence.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 218 pages : 1 color facsimile ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2018.

Summary:

How is a philosophical tradition created? What role does literary biography play in the formation of intellectual reception history? Through a detailed analysis of the lives and works of post-Avicennan philosophers, this monograph traces the intellectual history and development of the Avicennan tradition from the fifth/eleventh to the eighth/fourteenth century. Section 1 investigates the genres of Arabo-Islamic biobibliographical and prosopographical writings as a source for the history of Arabic philosophy, delineating their literary topoi, the construction of philosophical authority, and the relationship of Sunnī and Twelver-Šīī Islam to Aristotelian logic and philosophy. Section 2 presents fourteen discrete biobibliographical studies with a critical inventory of the works, including those written in the neglected exegetical genres of commentary, supercommentary, gloss, and supergloss, of Avicenna's immediate disciples and the following generations of philosophers who created the Avicennan philosophical heritage in the Islamicate world.--Provided by Publisher.

How is a philosophical tradition created? What role does literary biography play in the formation of intellectual reception history? Through a detailed analysis of the lives and works of post-Avicennan philosophers, this monograph traces the intellectual history and development of the Avicennan tradition from the fifth/eleventh to the eighth/fourteenth century. Section 1 investigates the genres of Arabo-Islamic biobibliographical and prosopographical writings as a source for the history of Arabic philosophy, delineating their literary topoi, the construction of philosophical authority, and the relationship of Sunnī and Twelver-Šīī Islam to Aristotelian logic and philosophy. Section 2 presents fourteen discrete biobibliographical studies with a critical inventory of the works, including those written in the neglected exegetical genres of commentary, supercommentary, gloss, and supergloss, of Avicenna's immediate disciples and the following generations of philosophers who created the Avicennan philosophical heritage in the Islamicate world.--Provided by Publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction. 1.1. Lives of the Philosophers Genre ; 1.2. The Avicennan Isnād ; 1.3. The "Meeting of Great Minds" Topos ; 1.4. Prosopographies of Sunnī Jurisconsults and Philosophy ; 1.5. Philosophy and the Madrasa ; 1.6. Philosophy, Šāfiʻism, and Šīī Proclivities

2. Lives and Works of the Philosophers. 2.1. Avicenna's Immediate Disciples ; 2.1.1. al-Ǧūzǧānī ; 2.1.2. Bahmanyār ; 2.1.3. Ibn-Zayla ; 2.1.4. al-Maʻṣūmī ; 2.1.5. Summary ; 2.2. Post-Avicennan Philosophers ; 2.2.1. al-Lawkarī ; 2.2.2. al-Ilāqī ; 2.2.3. al-Ġazālī ; 2.2.4. as-Sāwī ; 2.2.5. al-Ḫūnaǧī ; 2.2.6. al-Abharī ; 2.2.7. al-Kātibī ; 2.2.8. al-Urmawī ; 2.2.9. at-Tustarī ; 2.2.10. at-Taḥtānī.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-193) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Al-Rahim, Ahmed H. Creation of philosophical tradition.

ISBN:

9783447103336

3447103337

OCLC:

907173431

Publisher Number:

99979978318