Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction • Abdelkader Al Ghouz
Historical and Social Approaches to Philosophy
	Avicenna and After: The Development of Paraphilosophy.  A History of Science Approach • Dimitri Gutas
	Ibn Rushd’s (Averroes) ‘Disgrace’ and his Relation with the Almohads • Maribel Fierro
Knowing the Unknown
	Ibn Taymiyya’s Commentary on Avicenna’s Ishārāt, namaṭ X • Yahya M. Michot
	Post Avicennian Philosophy in the Muslim West: Ibn Bājja, Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldūn on Veridical Dreams and Prophecy • Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
God, Man and the Physical World
	Two Sixth/Twelfth-Century Hardliners on Creation and Divine Eternity: al-Šahrastānī and Abū l-Barakāt al-Baġdādī on God’s Priority over the World • Andreas Lammer
	Not That Simple: Avicenna, Rāzī, and Ṭūsī on the Incorruptibility of the Human Soul at Ishārāt VII.6 • Davlat Dadikhuda
	Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Void • Peter Adamson
Universals
	The Metaphysics of Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Šahrastānī (d. 1153): Aḥwāl and Universals • Fedor Benevich
	Post-Avicennian Controversy over the Problem of Universals: Saʿdaddīnat-Taftāzānī (d. 1389/90) and Šamsaddīn al-Fanārī (d. 1431) on the Reality of Existence • Yuki Nakanishi
Logic and Intellect
	Suhrawardī on Division of Aristotelian Categories • Hanif Amin Beidokhti
	Afḍal al-Dīn Kāshānī on the Unification of the Intellect, Intellector, and Intelligible • Nariman Aavani
Anthropomorphism and Incorporealism
	The Bedouin Who Asked Questions: The Later Ḥanbalites and the Revival of the Myth of Abū Razīn al-ʿUqaylī • Livnat Holtzman
	Ibn Taymiyya’s Use of Ibn Rushd to Refute the Incorporealism of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzı • Jon Hoover
Authors
List of Illustrations, Tables and Diagrams
Index