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Philosophy in the Islamic World - A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3 (Paperback)
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Philosophy in the Islamic World - A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3 (Paperback)
Series: A History of Philosophy
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List price R451
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The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy
podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy
in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach
unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by providing
full coverage of Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as Muslims,
and by taking the story of philosophy from its beginnings in the
world of early Islam all the way through to the twentieth century.
Major figures like Avicenna, Averroes, and Maimonides are covered
in great detail, but the book also looks at less familiar thinkers,
including women philosophers. Attention is also given to the
philosophical relevance of Islamic theology (kalam) and
mysticism-the Sufi tradition within Islam, and Kabbalah among
Jews-and to science, with chapters on disciplines like optics and
astronomy. The book is divided into three sections, with the first
looking at the first blossoming of Islamic theology and responses
to the Greek philosophical tradition in the world of Arabic
learning. This 'formative period' culminates with the work of
Avicenna, the pivotal figure to whom most later thinkers feel they
must respond. The second part of the book discusses philosophy in
Muslim Spain (Andalusia), where Jewish philosophers come to the
fore, though this is also the setting for such thinkers as Averroes
and Ibn Arabi. Finally, a third section looks in unusual detail at
later developments, touching on philosophy in the Ottoman, Mughal,
and Safavid empires and showing how thinkers in the nineteenth to
the twentieth century were still concerned to respond to the ideas
that had animated philosophy in the Islamic world for centuries,
while also responding to political and intellectual challenges from
the European colonial powers.
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