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Summary
Leading Islamic scholars present eleven essays on the major themes of: The Greek Philosophical Tradition and Islamic Theology, Classical Islamic Theology and the Early Shi‘a Movement, The Development of Philosophical and Mystical Theology, and Contemporary Research in Philosophical Theology and Science. Parviz Morewedge, in the introduction, brings into focus the relationship of the studies, many of which relate to philosophical and theological works available only in Arabic. Contributors: Abdurahman Badawi, Herbert Davidson, Richard M. Frank, Louis Gardet, George F. Hourani, Nicholas Heer, Wilferd Madelung, Ibrahim Madkour, F. E. Peters, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, and Parviz Morewedge.
Parviz Morewedge, associate professor of philosophy at Baruch College of the City University of New York, has authored The Metaphysica of Avicenna, Philosophies of Existence, and Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism and has written numerous articles on medieval philosophy for scholarly journals.
Table of Contents
Parvis Morewedge, Introduction
1. THE GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION AND ISLAMIC THEOLOGY 'Abdurrahman Badawi, New Philosophical Texts Lost in Greek
and Preserved in Arabic Translations F.E. Peters, The Origins of Islamic Platonism: The School
Tradition Louis Gardet, Aux debuts de la reflexion theologique de
l'Islam Ibrahim Madkour, La logique d'Aristote chez les Mutakallimun
II. CLASSICAL ISLAMIC THEOLOGY AND THE EARLY SHI'A MOVEMENT Richard M. Frank, Kalam and Philosophy, A Persepctive from
One Problem Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Faith as Tasdiq
Wilfred Madelung, The Shiite and Kharijite Contribution to
Pre-Ash 'arite Kalam
III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY George F. Hourani, Reason and Revelation in Ibn Hazm's
Ethical Thought Herbert A. Davidson, Avicenna's Proof of the Existence
of God as a Necessarily Existent Being Parviz Morewedge, A Third Version of the Ontological Argument
in the Ibn Sinian Metaphysics Nicholas Heer, Al-Jami's Treatise on "Existence"
