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God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives is
the first book in which Christian and Muslim scholars explore the
frontiers of science-religion discourse. Leading international
scholars present new work on key issues in science and religion
from Christian and Islamic perspectives. Following an introduction
by the editors, the book is divided into three sections: the first
explores the philosophical issues in science-religion discourse;
the second examines cosmology; the third analyses the issues
surrounding bioethics. One of the first books to explore aspects of
science-religion discourse from the perspective of two religious
traditions, God, Life, and the Cosmos opens up new vistas to all
interested in science and religion, and those exploring
contemporary issues in Christianity and Islam.
God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives is
the first book in which Christian and Muslim scholars explore the
frontiers of science-religion discourse. Leading international
scholars present new work on key issues in science and religion
from Christian and Islamic perspectives. Following an introduction
by the editors, the book is divided into three sections: the first
explores the philosophical issues in science-religion discourse;
the second examines cosmology; the third analyses the issues
surrounding bioethics. One of the first books to explore aspects of
science-religion discourse from the perspective of two religious
traditions, God, Life, and the Cosmos opens up new vistas to all
interested in science and religion, and those exploring
contemporary issues in Christianity and Islam.
Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority
both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous
generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only the vexed
question of the historical authorship and dating of the grand
corpus Jabirianum which poses a serious scholarly challenge;
equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those obscure and
tantalizing discourses which it contains. This book, which marks
the first full-scale study of Jabir ever to be published in the
English language, takes up both challenges. The author begins by
critically reexamining the historical foundations of the prevalent
view that the Jabirian corpus is the work not of an 8th-century
individual, but that of several generations of Shi'i authors
belonging to the following century and later. Tentatively
concluding that this view is problematic, the author, therefore,
infers that its methodological implications are also problematic.
Thus, developing its own methodological matrix, the book takes up
the second challenge, namely that of a substantive analysis and
explication of a Jabirian discourse, the Book of Stones. Here
explicating Jabir's notions of substance and qualities, analyzing
his ontological theory of language and unraveling the metaphysics
of his Science of Balance, the author reconstructs the doctrinal
context of the Stones and expounds its central theme. He then
presents an authoritative critical edition of a substantial
selection of the text of the Stones, based on all available
manuscripts. This critical edition has been translated in its
entirety and is provided with exhaustive commentaries and textual
notes -- another pioneering feature of this book: for this is the
first English translation of a Jabirian text to emerge in print
after a whole century. An outstanding contribution is that it
announces and presents an exciting textual discovery: the author
has found in the Stones a hitherto unknown Arabic translation of
part of Aristotle's Categories. Given that we have so far known of
only one other, and possibly later, classical Arabic translation of
the Greek text, Haq's discovery gives this book an historical
importance.
Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority
both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous
generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only the vexed
question of the historical authorship and dating of the grand
corpus Jabirianum which poses a serious scholarly challenge;
equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those obscure and
tantalizing discourses which it contains. This book, which marks
the first full-scale study of Jabir ever to be published in the
English language, takes up both challenges. The author begins by
critically reexamining the historical foundations of the prevalent
view that the Jabirian corpus is the work not of an 8th-century
individual, but that of several generations of Shi'i authors
belonging to the following century and later. Tentatively
concluding that this view is problematic, the author, therefore,
infers that its methodological implications are also problematic.
Thus, developing its own methodological matrix, the book takes up
the second challenge, namely that of a substantive analysis and
explication of a Jabirian discourse, the Book of Stones. Here
explicating Jabir's notions of substance and qualities, analyzing
his ontological theory of language and unraveling the metaphysics
of his Science of Balance, the author reconstructs the doctrinal
context of the Stones and expounds its central theme. He then
presents an authoritative critical edition of a substantial
selection of the text of the Stones, based on all available
manuscripts. This critical edition has been translated in its
entirety and is provided with exhaustive commentaries and textual
notes -- another pioneering feature of this book: for this is the
first English translation of a Jabirian text to emerge in print
after a whole century. An outstanding contribution is that it
announces and presents an exciting textual discovery: the author
has found in the Stones a hitherto unknown Arabic translation of
part of Aristotle's Categories. Given that we have so far known of
only one other, and possibly later, classical Arabic translation of
the Greek text, Haq's discovery gives this book an historical
importance.
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