Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin Traditions

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Narrating Premodern Philosophy in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin: Origins, Developments, Innovations
PART I: Traditions and Their Origins
	1 Why the Prime Mover Is Not an Exclusively Final Cause: Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes
	2 Philoponus and Forms
	3 Pseudo-Ammonius’ Ārāʾ al-falāsifa and Its Influence on Early Ismāʿīlī Thought
	4 Roger Bacon and His “Arabic” Sources in His Moralis philosophia
	5 Averroes’ Commentaries on Book 7 of Aristotle’s Physics
	6 The Influence of Mansūr Ibn Sarjūn (John of Damascus) on Aquinas’ Philosophy of Religious Worship
	7 Ibn Taymiyya on Ibn Rushd in the Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (with Special Attention to His Quotations of Ibn Rushd’s Tahāfut al-tahāfut)
PART II: Traditions Facing Forward
	8 How Light Makes Color Visible: The Reception of Some Greco-Arabic Theories (Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes) in Medieval Paris, 1240s–50s
	9 Anniyya faqaṭ Again: Reading Liber de causis 8[9] with Richard C. Taylor
	10 Ontology and Logic in Avicenna’s Concept of Truth: A Commentary on Ilāhiyyāt 1.8
	11 Al-Fārābī on What Is Known Prior to the Syllogistic Arts in His Introductory Letter, the Five Aphorisms, and the Book of Dialectic
	12 Dominicus Gundissalinus’ On Unity and the One
	13 Institution and Causality in Albert the Great’s Sacramental Theology
	14 Averroes’ Decisive Treatise (Faṣl al-maqāl) and Exposition (Kashf) as Dialectical Works
	15 Averroes on Imagination (takhayyul) as a Cognitive Power
PART III: Forging New Traditions
	16 The Emergence of a Science of Intellect: Albert the Great’s De intellectu et intelligibili
	17 Action by Being Alone in the Plotiniana Arabica
	18 “Incepit quasi a se”: Averroes on Avicenna’s Philosophy in the Long Commentary on the De anima
	19 Averroist by Contagion? Marsilius of Padua on civilis scientia
	20 Some Choice Words: Al-Ṭūsī’s Reconceptualization of the Issue of the World’s Age
	21 Unfounded Assumptions: Reassessing the Differences among Averroes’ Three Kinds of Aristotelian Commentaries
Appendix: “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’”—A Short History
Index