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Study Guide for Comparative Philosophy (a selection of reference works about non-Western ontology and logic)
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDES

A comprehensive bibliography of secondary literature on Islamic philosophy up to the year 2005 can be found in:

Hans Daiber. Bibliography of Islamic philosophy. Leiden: Brill 1999. (Two volumes).
Hans Daiber. Bibliography of Islamic philosophy. Supplement. Leiden: Brill 2007.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Logic in classical Islamic culture. Edited by Von Grunebaum Gustav Edmund. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1970.
Giorgio Levi Della Vida Biennial Conference Proceedings.
Isamic philosophy and the Classical Tradition. Edited by Stern S.M., Hourani George Fadlo, and Brown V. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer Publishers 1972.
Essays presented by his friends and pupils to Rchard Walzer on his seventieth birthday.
Essays on Islamic philosophy and science. Edited by Hourani George Fadlo. Albany: State University of New York Press 1975.
Islamic theology and philosophy. Studies in honor of George F. Hourani. Edited by Marmura Michael E. Albany: State University of New York Press 1984.
Arabic philosophy and the West. Continuity and interaction. Edited by Druart Thérèse-Anne.Georgetown University Press 1988.
Contents: Acknowledgments V; Preface VII-IX; Majid Fakhry: The Arabs and the encounter with philosophy 1; Fadlou Shehadi: Commentary: The continuity in Greek-Islamic philosophy 19; Therèse-Anne Druart: The soul and body problem: Avicenna and Descartes 27; Thomas P. McTighe: Commentary: Further remarks on Avicenna and Descartes 51; Charles E. Butterworth: The study of Arabic philosophy today (until 1983) 55; Appendix (1983-1987) 117; George N. Atiyeh: Commentary: Another aspect of Arabic philosophy 141; Contributors 155; Index 157.
Neoplatonism and Islamic thought. Edited by Morewedge Parviz. New York: State University of New York Press 1992.
History of Islamic philosophy. Edited by Nasr Seyyed Hossein and Leaman Oliver. London: Routledge 1996.
An anthology of philosophy in Persia. Edited by Nasr Seyyed Hossein and Aminrazavi Mehdi. New York: Oxford University Press 1999.
Volume I.
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Greek, Indian, and Arabic logic. Edited by Gabbay Dov and Woods John. Amsterdam: Elsevier North Holland 2004.
Handbook of the history of logic - Vol. I.
See the chapters: Arabic logic by Tony Street (pp. 523-596) and The translation of Arabic works on logic into Latin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Charles Burnett (pp. 597-605).
Aristotele e i suoi esegeti neoplatonici: Logica e ontologia nelle interpretazioni greche e arabe. Edited by Celluprica Vincenza and D'Ancona Costa Cristina. Napoli: Bibliopolis 2004.
Atti del convegno internazionale, Roma, 19-20 ottobre 2001
The Cambridge Companion to Arabic philosophy. Edited by Adamson Peter and Taylor Richard C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005.
Contents: Notes on contributors: IX; Note on the text XIII; Chronology of major philosophers in the Arabic tradition XV;
1. Introduction by Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor 1; 2. Greek into Arabic: Neoplatonism in translation by Cristina D'Ancona 10; 3. Al-Kindi and the reception of Greek philosophy by Peter Adamson 32; Al-Farabi and the philosophical curriculum by David C. Reisman 52; 5. The Isma'ilis by Paul E. Walker 72; 6. Avicenna and the Avicennian tradition 92; 7. Al-Ghazali by Michael E. Marmura 137; 8. Philosophy in Andalusia: Ibn Bajja and Ibn Tufayl by Josef Puig Montada 155; 9. Averroes: religious dialectic and Aristotelian philosophical thought by Richard C. Taylor; 10. Suhrawardi and Illuminationism 201; 11. Mysticism and philosophy: Ibn 'Arabi and Mulla Sadra by Sajjad H. Rizvi 224; 12. Logic by Tony Street 247; 13. Ethical and political philosophy 266; 14. Natural philosophy by Marwan Rashed 287; 15. Psychology: soul and intellect 308; 16. Metaphysics by Thérèse-Anne Druart 327; 17. Islamic philosophy and Jewish philosophy by Steven Harvey 349; 18. Arabic into Latin: the reception of Arabic philosophy into Western Europe by Charles Burnett 370; 19. Recent trends in Arabic and Persian philosophy by Hossein Ziai 405; Select bibliography and further readings 426; Index 442-448.
Storia della filosofia nell'Islam medievale. Edited by D'Ancona Cristina. Torino: Einaudi 2005.
Two volumes
Logik und Theologie. Das Organon im arabischen und im lateinischen Mittelalter. Edited by Perler Dominik and Rudolph Ulrich. Leiden: Brill 2005.
Proceedings of a Conference held October 3-5, 2002 in the Kartause Ittingen
The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions. Edited by Rahman Shahid, Street Tony, and Tahiri Hassan. Dordrecht: Springer 2008.
Afnan Soheil M. Philosophical terminology in Arabic and Persian. Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964.
Anawati Georges C., "Philosophie médiévale en terre d'Islam," Mélanges de l'Institut Dominicain des Études Orientales (MIDEO) 5: 175-236 (1958).
Anawati Georges C. Philosophie Arabe ou philosophie Musulmane? Plan pour une bibliographie de philosophie médiévale en Terre d'Islam. In Mélanges offerts a M.-D. Chenu, maitre en théologie. Edited by Duval André. Paris: Vrin 1967. pp. 51-71
Reprinted in: Georges C. Anawati - Études de philosophie musulmane - Paris, Vrin, 1974 pp. 69-89.
Badawi Abdurrahman. La transmission de la philosophie Grecque au monde Arabe. Paris: Vrin 1968.
Second revised and augmented edition 1987.
Badawi Abdurrahman. Histoire de la philosophie en Islam. Paris: Vrin 1972.
Two volumes: Vol. I: Les philosophes théologiques, Vol. II: Les philosophes purs
Bauloye Laurence. La traduction arabe de la Métaphysique et l'établissement du text grec. In Aristotelica secunda. Mélanges offerts à Christian Rutten. Edited by Motte André and Denooz Joseph. Liège: Université de Liège. Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres.Centre d'études aristotéliciennes 1996. pp. 281-289
Bertolacci Amos, "On the Arabic translations of Aristotle's Metaphysics," Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 15: 241-275 (2005).
"The starting-point and, at the same time, the foundation of recent scholarship on the Arabic translations of Aristotle's Metaphysics are Maurice Bouyges' excellent critical edition of the work in which the extant translations of the Metaphysics are preserved - i.e. Averroes' Tafsir (the so-called "Long Commentary") of the Metaphysics - and his comprehensive account of the Arabic translations and translators of the Metaphysics in the introductory volume. Relying on the texts made available by Bouyges and the impressive amount of philological information conveyed in his edition, subsequent scholars have been able to select and focus on more specific topics, providing, for example, a closer inspection of the Arabic translations of the single books of the Metaphysics (books A, a, and Lambda in particular), or a detailed comparison of some of these translations with the original text of theMetaphysics. A new trend of research in recent times has been the study of these versions as part of the wider context of the Graeco-Arabic translation movement."
Black Deborah L. Logic and Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics in medieval Arabic philosophy. Leiden: E. J. Brill 1990.
Booth Edward. Aristotelian aporetic ontology in Islamic and Christian thinkers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983.
Burnett Charles. Arabic into Latin. The reception of Arabic philosophy into Western Europe. In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic philosophy. Edited by Adamson Peter and Taylor Richard C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. pp. 370-404
Cruz Hernández Miguel. Historia del pensamiento en el mundo islámico. Madrid: Alianza Editorial 1996.
Vol. I: Desde los orígenes hasta el siglo XII en Oriente; Vol. II: El pensamiento de al-Ándalus (siglos IX-XIV); Vol. III: El pensamiento islámico desde Ibn Jaldun hasta nuestros días.
D'Ancona Costa Cristina. La casa della sapienza. La trasmissione della metafisica greca e la formazione della filosofia araba. Milano: Guerini e Associati 1996.
D'Ancona Costa Cristina. Greek into Arabic: Neoplatonism in translation. In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. pp. 10-31
Daiber Hans, "Die autonomie der Philosophie im Islam," Acta Philosophica Fennica 48: 228-249 (1990).
"The paper gives a survey of the concepts of philosophy hold by Islamic philosophers (Kindi, Abu Bakr Ar-Rrazi, Abu Hatim Ar-Razi, Farabi, Ibn Sina, Al-Gazzali, Ibn Bagga, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Khaldun). The dominant concept of philosophy as an epistemological instrument and as a way to the knowledge of God started from Koranic-Islamic assumptions like the idea of a transcendent God, the emphasis of the search after knowledge and first rational methods arguing and thinking about God and world as developed by the Mutazilites of the 8th/9th century. For Kindi who followed Aristotelian and Neoplatonic ideas, philosophy is knowledge of the divine cause and does not contradict religion and its revelation. Abu Bakr Ar-Razi took over Kindi's conception of the autonomy of philosophy and even denied the necessity of revelation; all people are able to philosophy."
Daiber Hans. What is the meaning of and to what end do we study the history of Islamic philosophy? In Bibliography of Islamic philosophy. Leiden: Brill 1999. pp. XII-XXXII
Davidson Herbert A. Proofs for eternity, creation and the existence of God in medieval Islamic ans Jewish philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press 1987.
Druart Thérèse-Anne. Metaphysics. In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic philosophy. Edited by Adamson Peter and Taylor Richard C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005. pp. 327-348
El-Rouayheb Khaled. Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900. Leiden: Brill 2010.
Elamrani-Jamal A. Logique aristotélicienne et grammaire arabe (Étude et documents). Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin 1983.
Endress Gerhard. <La Concordance entre Platon et Aristote>, l'Aristote arabe et l'émancipation de la philosophie en Islam médiéval. In Historia Philosophiae Medii Aevi. Studien zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters. Festschrift für Kurt Flasch zu seinem 60. Geburtstag. (vol. I). Edited by Mojsisch Burkhard and Pluta Olaf. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: B. R. Grüner 1991. pp. 237-257
Endress Gerhard, "L'Aristote arabe. Réception, autorité et transformation du Premier Maître," Medioevo 23: 1-42 (1997).
Fakhry Majid. The subject-matter of metaphysics. In Islamic theology and philosophy. Edited by Marmura Michael E. Albany: State University of New York Press 1984. pp. 137-147
Fakhry Majid. Philosophy, dogma and the impact of Greek thought in Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate 1994.
Feldman Seymour, "Rescher on Arabic logic," Journal of Philosophy 61: 724-733 (1964).
"After considerable discussion and criticism of Nicholas Rescher's two works on Arabic logic (largely on al-Farabi) Feldman notes that these are nevertheless valuable in that works on the history of logic, before Rescher, omitted any significant reference to the logical activities of the Arabic writing logicians."
Frank Richard M. Beings and their attributes: the teaching of the Basrian school of the Mu'tazila in the classical period. Albany: State University of New York Press 1978.
Frank Richard M., "M. Al-Ma'dum wal-Mawjud, the non-existent, the existent and the possible, in the teaching of Abu Hashim and his followers," Mélanges de l'Institut Dominicain des Études Orientales (MIDEO) 14: 185-210 (1980).
Frank Richard M., "The Ash'arite ontology: I. Primary entities," Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 9: 163-231 (1999).
Frank Richard M., "The non-existent and the possible in classical Ash'arite teaching," Mélanges de l'Institut Dominicain des Études Orientales (MIDEO) 24: 1-37 (2000).
Gutas Dimitri. Aspects of literary form and genre in Arabic logical works. In Glosses and Commentaries on Aristotelian logical texts. The Syriac, Arabic and Medieval Latin traditions. Edited by Burnett Charles. London: The Warburg Institute 1993. pp. 29-76
Gutas Dimitri. Greek thought, Arabic culture. The Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and early Abbasid society (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries). New York: Routledge 1998.
Translated in Italian by Cristina D'Ancona Costa as: Pensiero greco e cultura araba - Torino, Einaudi, 2002.
Gutas Dimitri. Greek philosophers in the Arabic tradition. Aldershot: Ashgate, Variorum Reprints 2000.
Reprint of the following essays:

Foreword; Acknowledgements;
Presocratics and Minor Schools.
1. Pre-Plotinian philosophy in Arabic (Other than Platonism and Aristotelianism): a review of the sources; 2. Sayings by Diogenes preserved in Arabic; 3. Adrastus of Aphrodisias, (Pseudo-) Cebes, Democrates 'Gnomicus', and Diogenes the Cynic in Arabic sources.
Plato.
4. Plato's Symposium in the Arabic tradition; 5. Galen's Synopsis of Plato's Laws and Farabi's Talhis.
Aristotle and the early Peripatos.
6. The spurious and the authentic in the Arabic Lives of Aristotle; 7. The life, works, and sayings of Theophrastus in the Arabic tradition; 8. Eudemus in the Arabic tradition.
Late Antiquity and the interface between Greek and Arabic.
9. Paul the Persian on the classification of the parts of Aristotle's philosophy: a milestone between Alexandria and Baghdad; 10. The starting point of philosophical studies in Alexandrian and Arabic Aristotelianism; 11. Philoponus and Avicenna on the separability of the Intellect: a case of orthodox Christian-Muslim agreement; 12. The malady of love.
Index
Gutas Dimitri, "The study of Arabic philosophy in the Twentieth century. An essay on the historiography of Arabic philosophy," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 29: 5-25 (2002).
Gyekie Kwame, "The terms Prima intentio and Secunda intentio in Arabic logic," Speculum 46: 32-48 (1971).
"The more passages one examines in the translations from Arabic to Latin and from Arabic to English and other modern languages, the more mistakes one comes across in the translation of the Arabic expression ala al-qasd al awwal (or, 'ala al-qasd al thani). The mistakes stem from the failure to distinguish between two senses of the expression, one an adverb, and the other a famous philosophic concept. Failing to distinguish between the two senses, the translators translated the phrase literally, often with unsatisfactory results. In this paper, I shall indicate a Greek word which was rendered by the Arabic 'ala al-qasd al-awwal. I shall refer to some English translations from the Arabic and show how wrong they are. I shall suggest that in Arabic philosophy itself al-Farabi, rather than Avicenna, may have been the origin of the philosophic concepts of "first and second intentions." I shall point out that although these concepts may have been introduced into Latin scholasticism by Raymond Lull, he could not have derived theni from the Logic of al-Ghazali, as has been alleged."
Gyekie Kwame, "The term Istithna in Arabic logic," Journal of the American Oriental Society 27: 88-92 (1972).
Gyekie Kwame. Arabic logic. Ibn al-Tayyb's Commentary on Porphyry's Eisagoge. Albany: State University of New York Press 1979.
Hallaq Wael B. Ibn Taymiyya against the Greek logicians. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993.
Hasnawi Ahmad. Topic and analysis: the Arabic tradition. In Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism? Edited by Sharples Robert W. Aldershot: Ashgate 2001. pp. 28-62
Hugonnard-Roche Henri. La formation du vocabulaire de la logique en arabe. In La formation du vocabulaire scientifique et intellectuel dans le monde arabe. Edited by Jacquart Danielle. Turnhout: Brepols 1994. pp. 22-38
Hugonnard-Roche Henri. La traduction arabe des Premiers analytiques d'Aristote. In Perspectives arabes et médiévales sur la tradition scientifique et philosophique grecque. Edited by Hasnawi Ahmad, Elamrani-Jamal Abdelali, and Aouad Maroun. Leuven: Peeters 1997. pp. 395-407
Actes du colloque de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques) Paris, 31 mars - 3 avril 1993.
Inati Shams. Logic. In History of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by Nasr Seyyed Hossein and Leaman Oliver. New York: Routledge 1996. pp. 802-823
Jadaane Fehmi. L'influence du Stoïcisme sue la pensée musulmane. Beyrouth: Librairie Orientale 1968.
Chapitre III. La logique pp. 99-135
Jolivet Jean. Le commentaire philosophique arabe. In Le commentaire entre tradition et innovation. Paris: Vrin 2000. pp. 397-410
Actes du Colloque International de l'Institut des Traditions Textuelles (Paris et Villejuif, 22-25 septembre 1999)
Kennedy-Day Kiki. Books of definition in Islamic philosophy. The limits of words. New York: Routledge Curzon 2003.
Leaman Oliver. A brief introduction to Islamic philosophy. Malden: Blackwell 1999.
Leaman Oliver, "Islamic philosophy and the attack on logic," Topoi 19: 17-24 (2000).
Madkour Ibrahim. L'Organon d'Aristote dans le monde Arabe, ses traductions, son étude et ses applications. Analyse puisée principalement à un commentaire inédit d'Ibn Sina. Paris: Vrin 1934.
Preface by Simon van den Bergh.
Second edition 1969.
Madkour Ibrahim, "La métaphysique en terre d'Islam," Mélanges de l'Institut Dominicain des Études Orientales (MIDEO) 7: 21-34 (1963).
Margoliouth David Samuel, "The discussion between Abu Bishr Matta and Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi on the merits of logic and grammar," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: 79-129 (1905).
Marmura Michael E., "The fortuna of the "Posterior Analytics" in the Arabic Middle Ages," Acta Philosophica Fennica 48: 85-103 (1990).
"The entry of the "Posterior Analytics" (translated to Arabic early in the 10th century) into medieval Islam marked a turning point in the development of Arabic philosophy. Its precepts became part of the texture of Arabic philosophical discourse as the world came to be perceived through the medium of logical connections, expressed in the language of middle terms. Al-Farabi (d. 950), developed his essentially Platonic political philosophy within the framework of Aristotle's demonstrative ideal. It had immense influence on Avicenna (d. 1037), who expanded on its precepts.
But it was also influenced by its new Islamic cultural environment. Avicenna included among the premises of demonstration, statements of individual historical events known through innumerable corroborative reports, deemed certain by the Islamic theologians; and the theologian Ghazali (d. 1111), sought to render its canons operative within his non-Aristotelian (occasionalist) world view."
Marmura Michael E. Probing in Islamic philosophy. Binghamton: Global Academic Publishing 2004.
Morewedge Parviz, "Contemporary scholarship on Near Eastern philosophy," Philosophical Forum 2: 122-140 (1970).
"This article is a critical study of a widespread tendency in contemporary scholarship on Near Eastern philosophy to assume tacitly (1) that Near Eastern philosophy is basically Greek philosophy as modified by the Muslim religious tradition, and (2) that philosophizing terminated altogether in
the Near East after Ibn Rushd (Averroes). salient features of the philosophy of Ibn Sina (Avicenna) point on the one hand to the presence of many significant themes in Near Eastern philosophy which stand in direct conflict with the commonly held dogmata of the Islamic religion and on the other
hand to a departure in Ibn Sina's views from those of representative Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plotinus."
Morewedge Parviz. Greek sources of some Islamic philosophies of being and existence. In Philosophies of existence. Edited by Morewedge Parviz. New York: Fordham University Press 1982. pp. 285-336
Reprinted in: Parviz Morewedge - Essays in Islamic philosophy, theology, and mysticism - Oneonta, : Oneonta Philosophy Studies, 1995, pp. 57.138
Nasr Seyyed Hossein, "Existence ('wujud') and Quiddity ('mahiyyah') in Islamic philosophy," International Philosophical Quarterly 29: 409-428 (1989).
"This paper deals with the meaning of "wujud" and "mahiyyah" in various schools of Islamic thought. It begins by turning attention to the significance of this subject for Islamic philosophy as well as theology and even certain schools of sufism. It traces the history of the subject from Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina to Suhrawardi, Fakhr al-din Al-Razi and later Islamic philosophers such as Mir Damad and Mulla Sadra. The essay then deals with the basic distinctions made by Ibn Sina between necessity, contingency and impossibility which forms the basis of the ontology of Islamic philosophers."
Nasr Seyyed Hossein. An introduction to Islamic cosmological doctrines. Albany: State University of New York Press 1993.
Nasr Seyyed Hossein. Islamic philosophy from its origin to the present. Albany: State University of New York Press 2006.
Peters Francis E. Aristotle and the Arabs. The Aristotelian tradition in Islam. New York: State of New York University Press 1968.
"The purpose of this book is to provide a reliable introduction to the history of the influence of Aristotelianism on Islamic intellectual life. After the ancient stage of Aristotelianism, the medieval transmission stage exhibits two separate movements: the passage of Aristotle into Western
christianity and the absorption of Aristotelianism by the Oriental world of Islam."
Peters Francis E. Aristoteles arabus. The Oriental translations and commentaries on the Aristotelian corpus. New York: State of New York University Press 1968.
"This monograph is an attempt to say all that can be presently said about the fortunes of the individual Aristotelian texts and their exegetical outriders from circa a. D. 1250 when the last of Ibn Rushd's commentaries on Aristotle arrived at the university of Paris and this particular chapter in the Aristotelian tradition came to an end."
Peters Francis E. The origins of Islamic Platonism: The School tradition. In Islmic Philosophical theology. Edited by Morewedge Parviz. Albany: State University of New York Press 1979. pp. 14-45
Rámon Guerrero Rafael, "El lenguaje del ser: de Ibn Sina a Mulla Sadra," Convivium 14: 113-127 (2001).
Raybaud Natahlie, "La philosophie arabe: une philosophie du commentaire?," Philosophie 77: 85-110 (2003).
Rescher Nicholas, "Some Arabic technical terms of syllogistic logic and their Greek originals," Journal of the American Oriental Society 82: 202-204 (1962).
Rescher Nicholas, "Al-Kindi's sketch of Aristotle's Organon," New Scholasticism 37: 44-58 (1963).
Rescher Nicholas. The development of Arabic logic. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1964.
"The book begins with a chapter on the "first century" of Arabic logic which is understood to be a period of transmission, translation and assimilation of mainly Alexandrian Aristotelianism. The author relates how toward the end of the development of Arabic logic the initial relationship which logic bore to medicine, mathematics and astronomy was replaced by a new kinship with the Islamic "sciences" of theology, law, philology and rhetoric."
Rescher Nicholas. Studies in the history of Arabic logic. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1964.
"In the ten essays brought together in this volume, the author discusses different aspects and problems related to the intellectual history of Islam and centered around logical and philosophical issues. The guiding line is that Arabic logic is entirely Western and has nothing to do with "oriental philosophy." Six of the essays have appeared in different journals. The first essay, written especially for this volume, gives a brief account of the history of Arabic logic. The other essays deal with particular texts and problems related to the writings of such thinkers as al-Farabi, al-Kindi, Avicenna, Abu 'l-Salt of Denia, Averroes. The book contains extensive bibliographical references, documentary and critical notes."
Rescher Nicholas. Temporal modalities in Arabic logic. Dordrecht: D. Reidel 1967.
Rescher Nicholas. Studies in Arabic philosophy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1968.
Roccaro Giuseppe, "Ontologia, metafisica e pensiero Islamico. Note introduttive," Giornale di Metafisica 30: 57-74 (2008).
"Although the noun "ontology" did not appear in the Islamic tradition, the problem of the relationship between metaphysics and being qua being as subject-matter is discussed according to the epistemological canons given by Avicenna and in the Islamic philosophy.
This paper offers an introductory examination of the relationship between ontology and metaphysics in the Islamic thought and takes into account exemplarily the Avicennian and Averroistic interpretations, according to the classical outline of opposition drawn by Duns Scotus.
The terms of the problem are not fixed by the position of Duns Scotus, rather by the Islamic horizon, and not according to the various many perspectives of the Islamic metaphysics, but according to the rational radicalism of the falsafa (philosophy) based on the authority of the Greek ilahiyyun (wise men), as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus."
Rosenthal Franz. The Classical Heritage in Islam. New York: Routledge 1994.
Translated from the German by Emile and Jenny Marmorstein.
Original edition: Das Fortleben der Antike im Islam - Zürich, Artemis, 1965.
Sabra Abdelhamid I. Kalam Atomism as an alternative philosophy to hellenizing Falsafa. In Arabic theology, Arabic philosophy. From the Many to the One: essays in celebraion of Richard M. Frank. Edited by Montgomery James E. Leuven: Peeters 2006. pp. 199-272
Shehadi Fadlou. Arabic and the concept of Being. In Essays on Islamic philosophy and science. Edited by Hourani George Fadlo. New York: State of New York University Press 1975. pp. 147-157
Shehadi Fadlou. Metaphysics in Islamic philosophy. New York: Caravan Books 1982.
Street Tony, "Towards a history of syllogistic after Avicenna: notes on Rescher's studies on Arabic modal logic," Journal of Islamic Studies 11: 209-228 (2000).
"This article examines the works of Rescher on Arabic syllogistic, particularly his 1974 paper, 'The Theory of Modal Syllogistic in Medieval Arabic Philosophy'. The article focuses in particular on the technical terms used by the logicians Rescher studies, and suggests some alternative translations. It also argues that the historical conclusions Rescher reaches need to be significantly qualified."
Street Tony. Logic. In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic philosophy. Edited by Adamson Peter and Taylor Richard C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005. pp. 247-265
Street Tony. Rescher on Arabic Logic. In Rescher Studies: A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher. Edited by Almeder Robert. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag 2008. pp. 309-324
Taha Abderrahmane. Langage et philosophie. Essai sur le structure linguistiques de l'ontologie. Rabat: Imprimerie de Fédala 1979.
With the traduction of the discussion reported by Abu Hayyan at-Tawhidi within the logician Matta Ibn Yunus and the grammarian Abu Sa'id as-Strafi and two other texts.
Teixidor Javier. Aristote en Syriaque. Paul le Perse, logicien du VIe siècle. Paris: CNRS Éditions 2003.
Thillet Pierre. La formation du vocabulaire philosophique arabe. In La formation du vocabulaire scientifique et intellectuel dans le monde arabe. Edited by Jacquart Danielle. Turnhout: Brepols 1994. pp. 39-54
Thom Paul. Medieval modal systems. Aldershot: Ashgate 2003.
Troupeau Gérard. La terminologie grammaticale. In La formation du vocabulaire scientifique et intellectuel dans le monde arabe. Edited by Jacquart Danielle. Turnhout: Brepols 1994. pp. 11-21
Versteegh Cornelis Henricus Maria. Greek elements in Arabic linguistic thinking. Leiden: Brill 1977.
Versteegh Kees. Grammar and logic in the Arabic grammatical tradition. In History of the language sciences. An international handbook on the evolution of the study of language from the Beginnings to the Present. Edited by Auroux Sylvain et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2000. pp. 300-306
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Walbridge John, "Logic in the Islamic intellectual tradition: The recent centuries," Islamic Studies 39: 55-75 (2000).
Wolfson Harry Austryn. The terms Tasawwur and Tasdiq in Arabic philosophy and their Greek, Latin and Hebrew equivalents. In Studies in the history and philosophy of religion. (Vol. I). Edited by Twersky Isadore and Williams George H. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1973. pp. 478-492