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The Philosopher Responds An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One / Volume one / Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū 'Alī Miskawayh ; edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz ; translated by Sophia Vasalou and James E. Montgomery = al-Hawāmil wa-al-shawāmilAbū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī wa-Abū ʻAlī Miskawayh. Volume one /
The philosopher responds : an intellectual correspondence from the tenth century. Volume one Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū 'Alī Miskawayh ; edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz ; translated by Sophia Vasalou and James E. Montgomery = الهوامل والشوامل / آبو حيّان التوحيديّ وأبو عليّ مسكويه.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century, author.
Ibn Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1030, author.
Contributor:
Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962- translator.
Vasalou, Sophia, translator.
Pomerantz, Maurice A., editor.
Urfahʹlī, Bilāl, editor.
Series:
Library of Arabic literature = al-Maktabah al-ʻArabīyah
Library of Arabic literature = المكتبة العربية.
Language:
Arabic
English
Subjects (All):
Philosophers.
Islamic philosophy.
Authors, Arab.
Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800.
Philosophers--Iran--10th century--Correspondence.
Authors, Arab--To 1258--Correspondence.
Iran.
Ibn Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1030.
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century.
Ibn Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1030--Correspondence.
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century--Correspondence.
Genre:
Personal correspondence.
Early works.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Other Title:
هوامل والشوامل
Place of Publication:
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Language Note:
In English and Arabic.
Summary:
"Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past ever if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, "The Philosipher Respons" is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʻAlī Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth centuries.
Contents:
The Philosopher Responds
Frontmatter
Letter from the General Editor
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Map: Buyid and Neighboring Lands
Note on the Text
Notes to the Introduction
The Philosopher Responds, Volume One
On the differences between a number of similar words
On why people commend the keeping of secrets yet still disclose them
On why certain names are more pleasing than others
On why people preach renunciation but do not practice it; on reasons, causes, time, and place
On why people seek worldly goods through knowledge but do not seek knowledge through worldly goods
On why people long for the past
On why men of knowledge tend to be conceited
On why people are sometimes ashamed and sometimes proud of wrongdoing; on the meaning of shame
On why people claim to have knowledge they lack
On why it pleases people when others ascribe good qualities to them
On why it is bad to praise people in their presence and good to praise them in their absence
On why people want to know what others say about them in their absence
On why people disapprove of young people who act as if they were older
On why mean people tend to be mild-tempered and generous people volatile
On why people need to acquire knowledge but not ignorance
On why people who provoke admiration also feel wonder at themselves; on the nature of wonder; on describing and knowing God
On why it is unseemly to eulogize long-time friends and acquaintances
On why blind people are often endowed with unusual powersstion
On why people say that nothing good comes from partnership
On why people use intermediaries despite the problems with partnership
On why people speak gladly about the needs of those they concern themselves with yet keep quiet about their own needs
On why some people become famous after they die
On why men of virtue and reason feel envious toward their equals even though they know envy is blameworthy
On why we fear death but sometimes welcome it
On why thin people tend to be noble and fat people ignoble
On why short people tend to be crafty and tall people foolish
On why some people overstate and others understate their age
On why people end up loving particular months or days and why they form different conceptions of different days
On the meaning and origin of injustice
On the significance of a popular saying, and the meaning of certain words
On why relatives and kinfolk are prone to outbreaks of extreme hostility
On why people become angry when others impute evil to them
On why a person who is being talked about suddenly appears out of nowhere; on the nature of coincidences
On the meaning of certain ordinary and technical terms
On the meaning of certain prepositional expressions concerning God
On the nature of the sense of familiarity we feel toward particular places and people
On why epilepsy is so hard to treat
On why people are so enamored of ascetic individuals
On why some people squander their money despite the harmful consequences this entails while others are miserly even though this gives them a bad name
On why some people keep their affairs private while others broadcast them for all to hear
On why self-praise is unseemly
On why people disparage avarice even though they’re avaricious; on the origin of avarice and generosity
On why people blame treachery and praise fidelity even though treachery predominates among them
On the origin of the customs of different nations
On why people don’t grow young again after they’ve grown old
On the benefit people derive from likening some things to others
On why some dreams are true and others false
On the nature of dreams
On why friendship arises between apparently dissimilar individuals
On the definition and nature of knowledge
On why people make apparently false statements when expressing admiration
On why people take pleasure in contemplating beautiful forms
On why people are more adept at counseling others than at managing their own affairs
On why the sight of open wounds provokes horror and fascination
On why people love the present world; on whether the religious Law can conflict with nature
On why people take their own lives
On a philosophical puzzle relating to the act of suicide
On moral change and acting out of character
On the meaning of a certain saying concerning God’s beneficence
On why noble-minded people love cleanliness
On the merits of singing versus playing musical instruments
On why some people master different subjects more easily than others
On the nature of physiognomy
On why people covet things denied to them
On why people inquire into what will happen in the future
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index
About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
About the Typefaces
Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature
About the Editor–Translators
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Contains:
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century. Hawāmil wa-al-shawāmil. English
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century. Hawāmil wa-al-shawāmil.
ISBN:
9781479886999
1479886998
OCLC:
1124599209

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