Research Catalog

Title

Medieval Arabic thought : essays in honour of Fritz Zimmermann / edited by Rotraud Hansberger, M. Afifi al-Akiti and Charles Burnett.

Publication

London : Warburg Institute ; Turin : Nino Aragno Editore, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hansberger, Rotraud E. (Rotraud Elisabeth), 1974-
• al-Akiti, M. Afifi.
• Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.)
• Zimmermann, F. W.

Description

viii, 247 p. : port.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Warburg Institute studies and texts ; 4

Uniform Title

Warburg Institute studies and texts; 4.

Alternative Title

Essays in honour of Fritz Zimmermann

Subject

• Zimmermann, F. W. > Bibliography
• Philosophy, Arab
• Islamic philosophy
• Philosophy, Medieval
• Islamic civilization

Bibliography (note)

• "A list of publications by Fritz Zimmermann": p. 239-242.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Articles primarily in English, with one French and one German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Galen and al-Rāzī on time / Peter Adamson -- The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazālī: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti -- Some Syriac pseudo-platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock -- Al-Jāḥiẓ on Aṣḥāb al-Jahālāt and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone -- Jawhar and Dhāt in some medieval Arabic philosophers (or, on 'Dhis and Dhat') / Julian Faultless -- Le scepticisme et sa réfutation selon al-Malāḥimī / Charles Genequand -- Mediating the medium: the Arabic Plotinus on vision / Rotraud Hansberger -- Shīʹī views of the death of the Prophet Muḥammad / Etan Kohlberg -- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's exposition of mayl / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- ʻĪsā ibn ʻUmayr's Ibāḍī theology and Donatist Christian thought / Wilferd Madelung -- The absurdaties of infinite time: Shahrastānī's critique of Ibn Sīnā and Ṭūsī's defence / Toby Mayer -- The Islamic literature on encounters between Muslim renunciants and Christian monks / Christopher Melchert -- The development of translation techniques from Greek into Syriac and Arabic: the case of Galen's On the faculties and powers of simple drugs, book six / Peter E. Pormann -- The working files of Rhazes: are the Jāmiʻ and the Ḥāwī identical? / Emilie Savage-Smith -- Waiting for Philoponus / Richard Sorabji -- Αἲξ τὴν μάχαιραν / Manfred Ullman -- On coincidence: the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth nights of al-Tawḥīdī's al-Imtāʻ wa-l-muʼānasa. An annotated translation / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Fragments of the hitherto lost Arabic translation of Galen's On my own opinions in the philosophy reader MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Oriental Collections, Marsh 539 / Elvira Wakelnig -- A list of publications of Fritz Zimmermann -- Index of proper names.

ISBN

• 9781908590718
• 1908590718

OCLC

• 820968592
• SCSB-11528897

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library