The creation of philosophical tradition : biography and the reception of Avicenna's philosophy from the eleventh to the fourteenth century A.D. /
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 trad...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
[2018]
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| Series: | Diskurse der Arabistik ;
Bd. 21. |
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Table of 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.