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

507 Pages·2011·5.71 MB·English

by  David Reisman

Islamic Philosophy, Science,
Culture, and Religion
Islamic Philosophy, Theology
and Science
Text and Studies
Edited by
Hans Daiber
Anna Akasoy
Emilie Savage-Smith
VOLUME LXXXIII
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Dimitri Gutas
Islamic Philosophy, Science,
Culture, and Religion
Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas
Edited by
Felicitas Opwis and David Reisman
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2012
Cover image: All Gizah Pyramids taken on June 19, 2006 in Nazlat as Samman, al-Jizah,
Egypt, by Ricardo Liberato.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Islamic philosophy, science, culture, and religion : studies in honor of Dimitri Gutas / edited
by Felicitas Opwis and David Reisman.
p. cm. — (Islamic philosophy, theology and science ; v. 83)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-20274-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Islamic philosophy. 2. Islamic
philosophy—Greek influences. 3. Science—Islamic countries—History. 4. Islamic civilization.
I. Gutas, Dimitri. II. Opwis, Felicitas Meta Maria. III. Reisman, David.
B741.I838 2012
001.0917’67—dc23
2011035777
ISSN 0169-8729
ISBN 978 90 04 20274 0 (hardback)
ISBN 978 90 04 21776 8 (e-book)
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ............................................................................ ix
Dedication ........................................................................................... xi
PART I
THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE: ISLAMIC CULTURE
Graeco-Arabica Christiana: The Christian Scholar ʿAbd Allāh
ibn al-Faḍl from Antiochia (11th c. A.D.) as Transmitter of
Greek Works .................................................................................. 3
Hans Daiber
Aristo of Ceus: The Fragments Concerning Eros ........................ 11
William W. Fortenbaugh
Professional Medical Ethics from a Foreign Past ........................ 25
David C. Reisman
The Arabic History of Science of Abū Sahl ibn Nawbaḫt
(fl. ca 770–809) and Its Middle Persian Sources ..................... 41
Kevin van Bladel
The Physiology and Therapy of Anger: Galen on Medicine,
the Soul, and Nature ..................................................................... 63
Heinrich von Staden
In Aristotle’s Words . . . al-Ḥātimī’s (?) Epistle on al-Mutanabbī
and Aristotle ................................................................................... 89
Beatrice Gruendler
The Prison of Categories—‘Decline’ and Its Company .............. 131
Sonja Brentjes
Also via Istanbul to New Haven—Mss. Yale Syriac 7–12 .......... 157
Hidemi Takahashi
vi contents
PART II
CLASSICAL ARABIC SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
A Judaeo-Arabic Version of T̠ābit ibn Qurra’s De imaginibus
and Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Opus imaginum ..................................... 179
Charles Burnett and Gideon Bohak
Ibn Sīnā’s Taʿlīqāt: The Presence of Paraphrases of and
Super-Commentaries on the Ilāhīyāt of the Šifāʾ .................... 201
Jules Janssens
The Invention of Algebra in Zabīd: Between Legend and
Fact ................................................................................................... 223
David A. King
Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Avicenna’s Modal
Syllogistic ........................................................................................ 233
Tony Street
The Distinction of Essence and Existence in Avicenna’s
Metaphysics: The Text and Its Context ..................................... 257
Amos Bertolacci
Höfischer Stil und wissenschaftliche Rhetorik: al-Kindī als
Epistolograph ................................................................................. 289
Gerhard Endress
New Philosophical Texts of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: A Supplement to
Endress’ Analytical Inventory ...................................................... 307
Robert Wisnovsky
Avicenna’s Notion of Transcendental Modulation of
Existence (taškīk al-wuǧūd, analogia entis) and Its Greek
and Arabic Sources ....................................................................... 327
Alexander Treiger
contents vii
PART III
MUSLIM TRADITIONAL SCIENCES
The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the
Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān in Muʿtazila Discourse As
Reflected in the Tahd̠īb of al-Ḥākim al-Ǧišumī
(d. 494/1101) .................................................................................. 367
Suleiman A. Mourad
Attributing Causality to God’s Law: The Solution of Faḫr
ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī ............................................................................... 397
Felicitas Opwis
Kitāb al-Ḥayda: The Historical Significance of an Apocryphal
Text .................................................................................................. 419
Racha El Omari
From al-Maʾmūn to Ibn Sabʿīn via Avicenna: Ibn Taymīya’s
Historiography of Falsafa ............................................................ 453
Yahya Michot
Index .................................................................................................... 477