Language and being in al-Fārābī : the philosophy of Taškīk / Rosabel P. Ansari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ansari, Rosabel, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fārābī.

Islamic philosophy.

Language--Philosophy.

Language.

Metaphysics--Religious aspects--Islam.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'Language and Being in al-Fārābī' is a monograph devoted to the philosophy of language and metaphysics of Abu Nasr al-Fārābī (d. 950), a medieval Aristotelian, and Islamic philosopher. Asking questions concerning the relationship between language, meaning, and being, Ansari explores the history of Greek philosophy in Arabic, and its development into the early modern Islamic context.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Lis of Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes on Citation, Translation, and Transliteration

Introduction: Exploring the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics

From Aristotle's Pros Hen Homonymy to Fārābī's Amphibolous Terms

Essentialism

Fārābī, the Greek Sources, and the Islamicate Context

Structure of the Book

1 Reassessing the History of a Philosophical Concept

The Amphibolous Predication of 'Being'

The Translation of Taškīk: Competing Options

Amphibolous Predication in the Philosophy of Fārābī

The Book of Letters and the Unity of Fārābī's Metaphysics

Conclusion

2 Language, Intelligibles, and Being

The Tripartite Relationship Between Language, Intelligibles, and Being

Primary and Secondary Intelligibles

Detachment and Composition

Derived Terms and Primary Examples

The Noetic and Ontological Priority

The Ontological Status of Intelligibles

3 The Theory of Amphibolous Predication

Homonymy in Aristotle and Porphyry

Fārābī's Theory of Amphibolous Terms

The Relations Between the Meanings of Amphibolous Terms

Modulated Univocals

Amphibolous Terms and Transcategorials

The Designation 'Amphibolous' and the Question of Greek Origins

'Amphibolous' Terms in the Arabic and Islamic Context

4 The Theory of What Is (al-Mawǧūd)

Conceptual Vocabulary in Greek, Arabic, and English

To On, Esti, and Al-Mawǧūd

Essential Predication

Being, Not Existing

Al-wuǧūd

The Baghdad Aristotelians and the Impact of the Graeco-Arabic Translators

5 The Amphibolous Predication of 'Being'

'Being' as an Amphibolous Term

The Primary Predication of 'Being'

Reconciling the Two Perspectives: Realization of Quiddity.

What Is Best Known to Us and What Is Best Known By Nature

6 Emanation and the Ranking of Beings

Emanation

The Derivation of Being-Ness From Being

Being-ness: Differentia, Quiddity, and Subsistence

Being Simpliciter and Detached Theology

Emanation Revisited

Substantification

The Meaning and Function of Emanationist Language

Alexander of Aphrodisias and Efficient Causality

The Stakes

7 The Refutation of Parmenides

Parmenidean Monism

Fārābī's Knowledge of Parmenides

Fārābī's Refutation of Parmenides

Amphibolous Predication, Monism, and the Loss of Meaning

8 The Fārābian Legacy of Amphibolous Predication in the Post-Classical Period

Amphibolous Predication in Avicenna

Taškīk as 'Amphiboly': The Fārābian Legacy in the Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries

Amphibolous Predication and the Relationship Between Logic and Metaphysics in the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries

Appendix

Bibliography

Index of Names and Select Works

Index of Concepts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 14, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-780809-3

0-19-780807-7

0-19-780808-5

9780197808078

OCLC:

1531970875