The Cambridge companion to Arabic philosophy / edited by Peter Adamson, Richard C. Taylor. [electron...
The Cambridge companion to Arabic philosophy / edited by Peter Adamson, Richard C. Taylor. [electron...
The Cambridge companion to Arabic philosophy / edited by Peter Adamson, Richard C. Taylor. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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English
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1 online resource (xvii, 448 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Greek into Arabic / Cristina D'ancona -- Al-Kindī and the reception of Greek philosophy / Peter Adamson -- Al-Fārābī and the philosophical curriculum / David C. Reisman -- Ismā́'īlīs / Paul E. Walker -- Avicenna and the Avicennian tradition / Robert Wisnovsky -- Al-Ghazālī / Michael E. Marm...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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England
Date Published
2005.
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Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical importance. This collection of essays, by s...
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The Cambridge companion to Arabic philosophy / edited by Peter Adamson, Richard C. Taylor. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions to philosophy
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English
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0-511-99986-0
1-107-48584-3
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181/.92
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991023962509102626
