Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas

Abstract

1. Dedication 2. The Classical Heritage: Islamic Culture 2.1 Graeco-Arabica Christiana: The Christian Scholar 'Abd Allah ibn al-Fadl (11th c. A.D.) as Transmitter of Greek Works, Hans Daiber 2.2 Aristo of Ceus: the Fragments concerning Eros, William W. Fortenbaugh 2.3 Professional Medical Ethics from a Foreign Past, David Reisman 2.4 The Arabic History of Science of Abu Sahl ibn Nawbaht (fl. ca 770-809) and Its Middle Persian Sources, Kevin van Bladel 2.5 The Physiology and Therapy of Anger: Galen on Medicine, the Soul, and Nature, Heinrich von Staden 2.6 In Aristotle's Words: al-Hatimi's (?) Epistle on al-Mutanabbi and Aristotle, Beatrice Gruendler 2.7 The Prison of Categories - Decline and Its Company, Sonja Brentjes 2.8 Also via Istanbul to New Haven - Mss Yale Syriac 7-12, Hidemi Takahashi 3. Classical Arabic Science and Philosophy 3.1 A Judeo-Arabic Version of Tabit ibn Qurra's De Imaginibus and Ptolemy's Opus Imaginum, Charles Burnett and Gideon Bohak 3.2 Ibn Sina's Ta'liqat: The Presence of Paraphrases of and Super-commentaries on the Ilahiyat of the S ifa', Jules Janssens 3.3 The Invention of Algebra in Zabid: Between Legend and Fact, David King 3.4 Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Avicenna's Modal Syllogistic, Tony Street 3.5 The Distinction between Essence and Existence in Avicenna's Metaphysics: The Text and Its Context, Amos Bertolacci 3.6 Hofischer Stil und wissenschaftliche Rhetorik: al-Kindi als Epistolograph, Gerhard Endress 3.7 New Philosophical Texts of Yahya ibn 'Adi: a Supplement to Endress' Analytical Inventory, Robert Wisnovsky 3.8 Avicenna's Notion of Transcendental Modulation of Existence (taskik al-wugud, analogia entis) and Its Greek and Arabic Sources, Alexander Treiger 4. Muslim Traditional Sciences 4.1 The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the Hermeneutics of the Qur'an in Mu'tazila Discourse as Reflected in the Tahdib of al-Hakim al-G is umi (d. 494/1101), Suleiman Mourad 4.2 Attributing Causality to God's Law: the Solution of Fahr ad-Din ar-Razi, Felicitas Opwis 4.3 Kitab al-Hayda: The Historical Significance of an Apocryphal Text, Racha El Omari 4.4 From al-Ma'mun to Ibn Sab'in via Avicenna: Ibn Taymiya's Historiography of Falsafa, Yahya Michot Index