Islamic Philosophy

* Preface to 2nd Edition * Author?s note * Abbreviations * Glossary *1 A Short History of Islamic Philosophy * The growth of Islam * Neoplatonism * Major thinkers *2 Main controversies * What is Islamic philosophy? * Early reactions to Greek philosophy in Islamic culture: the Great Debate * Al-Ghazali and philosophy: the question of creation * The nature of time * Mulla Sadra on change * Iqbal on time * Ibn Rushd on time * What can God do? * Miracles and meaning * The afterlife * What can God know? * Philosophical accounts of religious concepts * How free is God? * Essence, existence, and miracles * The meaning of words * Meaning and unity * bi la kayfa * Ibn Taymiyya on talking about God *3 Knowledge * The notion of Islamic science * Science and rationality * The nature of knowledge * What is knowledge for? * Imagination * Ibn Sina on knowledge and the oriental philosophy * Sufism, knowledge and imagination * Knowledge by presence *4 Mysticism * Mysticism as a system * Being * Mysticism as a science * The perfect man * The deepening of prayer * Criticisms of Sufism *5 Ontology * Being and existence in Islamic philosophy * Ibn Rushd vs. Ibn Sina on existence * Mulla Sadra vs. al-Suhrawardi on existence * The equivocality of being * Mulla Sadra and mysticism * The imaginal realm * Different routes to one truth and the role of imagination * Allegory and meaning: the imaginal realm again * Prophecy and its psychological basis * Is being really the first question in metaphysics? *6 Ethics * Theological background: Mu?tazilites vs. Ash?arites * Ethics and divine power * Al-Ghazali\'s attack on objectivism in ethics * Trusting authority * The need for guidance *7 Politcs * Plato versus Aristotle * The diversity of human beings * Islamic accounts of history * The notion of the ?medieval? * Liberalism vs. Islam * The case of jihad * Modern political consequences *8 The Question of Transmission * Philosophy and religion * The notion of cultural contact * The Andalusi connection * Getting back to basics * Radicalism in thought * Falsafa and hikma: philosophy and wisdom * The concept of religious reason * The concept of inclusive reason * Robinson Crusoe and Hayy ibn Yaqzan *9 Language * The case of Ibn Rushd * Ibn Rushd on meaning * Ibn Rushd and elitism * The Enlightenment Project * Ibn Rushd as a critic of mysticism * The implications for language *10 Islamic Philosophy today * The West as decadent * Confronting tradition * Islamic exceptionalism * Did al-Ghazali destroy Islamic philosophy? *11 Does Islam need an enlightenment? * Jewish and Muslim reactions to modernity * Moses Mendelssohn and Muhammad ?Abduh * Islamic exceptionalism again * The Enlightenment and theology * Christianity as the symbol of modernity * The need for an enlightenment * The lack of radicalism in Islamic Qur?an commentary * References and Bibliography * Bibliographical Resources * Index