Warburg Institute Colloquia 16

IN THE AGE OF AVERROES: ARABIC PHILOSOPHY IN THE SIXTH/TWELFTH CENTURY

Edited by Peter Adamson

Much as a previous volume published by the Warburg explored the full range of philosophical developments in the 10th century CE, so this collection of 13 papers by leading scholars looks at philosophical literature of the 12th century. Several contributors discuss the most famous thinker of the period, the great commentator Averroes. But the volume casts a wide net, taking in theologians, “philosophical mystics”, and scientists as well as philosophers, and Jewish philosophy as well as Islamic thought. Apart from Averroes, figures emphasized in the volume include al-Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi and Suhrawardi.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Peter Adamson
Introduction

Dimitri Gutas
Philosophy in the Twelfth Century: One View from Baghdad, or the Repudiation of al-Ghazali

N. Peter Joosse
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi as a Philosopher and a Physician: Myth or Reality, Topos or Truth?

Frank Griffel
Between al-Ghazali and Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi: The Dialectical Turn in the Philosophy of Iraq and Iran During the Sixth/Twelfth Century

Ayman Shihadeh
New Light on the Reception of al-Ghazali’s Doctrines of the Philosophers (Maqasid al- Falasifa)

Sylvie Nony
La dynamique d'Abu l-Barakat: faire le vide pour penser le changement du changement

Heidrun Eichner
‘Knowledge by Presence’, Apperception and the Mind-Body Relationship: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi and al-Suhrawardi as Representatives of a Thirteenth-Century Discussion

Jari Kaukua I
in the Light of God: Selfhood and Self-Awareness in Suhrawardi’s Hikm at al-ishraq

Deborah L. Black
Averroes on the Spirituality and Intentionality of Sensation

Matteo Di Giovanni
Substantial Form in Averroes’s Long Commentary on the Metaphysics

Taneli Kukkonen
Heart, Spirit, Form, Substance: Ibn Tufayl’s Psychology

Resianne Fontaine
Jewish Philosophy on the Eve of the Age of Averroism: Ibn Daud’'s Necessary and Steven Harvey Existent and his Use of Avicennian Science

Anna Akasoy
What is Philosophical Sufism?

Gregor Schwarb
Mu‘tazilism in the Age of Averroes

Index; Index of Manuscripts

pp c. 286 2 black & white illustrations 2011 Price: £60.00

ISBN 978 0 85481 154 0 ISSN 1352-9986

The Warburg Institute, London - Nino Aragno Editore, Turin