Feder, Tafel, Mensch : al-Amiris Kitab al-Fusul fi l-maalim al-ilahiya und die arabische Proklos-Rezeption im 10. Jh. / Text, Ubersetzung und Kommentar von Elvira Wakelnig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʻĀmirī, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf.

Contributor:

Wakelnig, Elvira.

Series:

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 67.

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 67

Standardized Title:

Fuṣūl fī al-maʻālim al-ilāhīyah. German & Arabic

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Islamic philosophy.

Neoplatonism.

Amiri, Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Yusuf. Fusul fi al-maalim al-ilahiyah.

Amiri, Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Yusuf.

Proclus, approximately 410-485.

Proclus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

German

Summary:

This volume deals with the philosopher Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʽĀmirī (died 992) and his reception of Neoplatonism, focusing on his Kitāb al-Fuṣūl fī l-maʽālim al-ilāhīya , the Chapters on Metaphysical Topics (Arabic text with German translation). The Chapters on Metaphysical Topics paraphrase sections of the Elements of Theology by the Neoplatonist Proclus (died 485) and are therefore part of the Arabic Procliana. The commentary analyses al-ʽĀmirī's combination of Greek philosophy with Islamic theology, especially the harmonization of philosophical and Qur'anic terminology (universal Intellect is the Pen, universal Soul the Tablet) and man's position between the two worlds. On the basis of a textual comparison between al-ʽĀmirī's work, the Greek text of Proclus and the Arabic writings of the Liber de Causis -tradition, the book argues for the existence of a "Ur- Liber de causis ".

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

A revision of the editor's thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-410) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-39990-6

9786611399900

90-474-1030-0

OCLC:

654415035

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047410300 DOI