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Author:   Michael E. Marmura
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780873957472

ISBN 10:   0873957474
Pages:   339
Publication Date:   30 June 1984
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: A Biographical Sketch of George F. Hourani and a Bibliography Part One: Islamic Theology 1. Abu l-Hudhayl in Contact: The Genesis of an Anecdote Josef: Van Ess (University of Tubingen) 2. Materiaux pour une bibliographie des Jubba'i: Note complementaire Daniel Gimaret (Sorbonne) 3. Bodies and Atoms: The Ash'arite Analysis Richard M. Frank (The Catholic University of America) 4. Un ouvrage de kalam ash'arite attribue a un contemporain d'al-Juwayni Marie Bernand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) 5. Rahman et Rahim dans les Lawami' al-bayyinat de Fakhr al-Din al-Razi Georges C. Anawati (Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales, Cairo) Part Two: Islamic Philosophy 6. Isma'ili and Druze Cosmogony in Relation to Plotinus and Aristotle Sami N. Makarem (American University of Beirut) 7. Siyasa in Islamic Political Philosophy Fauzi M. Najjar (Michigan State University) 8. The Rhetorician and his Relationship to the Community: Three Accounts of Aristotle's Rhetoric Charles E. Butterworth (University of Maryland) 9. The Subject-Matter of Metaphysics: Aristotle and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Majid Fakhry (American University of Beirut) 10. Ibn Sina on Single Expressions Shams Inati (State University of New York at Buffalo) 11. Destiny Revisited: Avicenna's Concept of Determinism Alfred L. Ivry (Brandeis University) 12. The Metaphysics of Efficient Causality in Avicenna (Ibn Sina) Michael E. Marmura (University of Toronto) 13. Remarks on Averroes' Decisive Treatise Muhsin Mahdi (Harvard University) 14. Eternity and Origination: Averroes' Discourse on the Manner of the World's Existence Barry S. Kogan (Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati) 15. 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghadi's Epitome of the Kalam fi Mahd al-Khayr (Liber de Causis) Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University) 16. Afdal al-Din Kashani and the Philosophical World of Khwaja Nasir al-Din Tusi Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Temple University) 17. Theism, Mysticism and Scientific History in Ibn Khaldun Fablou Shehadi (Rutgers University) Notes Index

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Michael E. Marmura is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto.

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