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Mashhad Al-Allaf
Jābir on Inductive Reasoning and Metaphysics:
A Chemist’s Perspective on Philosophy of Science and the Eternity of the World
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Omar Kassem
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī on Intensional Logic, Freedom and Justice
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Rahil Nacafov
The Problem of Revelation in the Islamic Philosophy:
Comparative Analysis Between Avicenna and Fārābī
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Mostafa Younesie
Speculations on the Possibility of Alfarabi’s Partial Reception of Thrax’ Tekhne Grammatike
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Mustafa Yildiz
Conceiving Religion:
Al-Fārābī and Averroes on the Concepts of “Millah” and “Sharīʾah”
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Aaron Spevack
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Ozgur Koca
The Idea of Causal Disproportionality in Said Nursi (1877-1960) and its Implications
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Aaron Spevack
The Qur’an and God’s Speech According to the Later Ashʿarī-Māturīdī Verifiers
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Mehdi Aminrazvi
Omar Khayyām on Theodicy:
Irreconcilability of the Transcendental and the Imminent
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Ahmed Alwishah
Ibn Sīnā on Floating Man Arguments
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In this paper we undertake logical deep analyses of Ibn Sīnā’s (c. 980–1037) Flying (or Floating) Man based on Fazlur Rahman’s contribution to Muhammad Sharif’s A History of Islam Philosophy (1963). Next, we show how the Arabic original can contribute to an understanding of the thought experiment beyond the medieval Latin interpretation as after, for example, a recent publication by Dag Nikolaus Hasse. On the basis of the thought experiment analyses and comparison to contemporary postmodern thought experiments we conclude, among other things, that the traditional historical comparison between René Descartes’ Cogito and Ibn Sīnā’s Flying Man is rather unlikely.
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Tariq Jaffer
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Taqlīd
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Hamid Dabashi
Editorial: Found in Translation
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C. P. Hertogh
Ibn Sīnā’s Flying Man: Logical Analyses of a (Religious) Thought Experiment
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Balqis Al-Karaki
The Points of Contention in a Platonic Reflection Analogy by al-Fārābī
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Shawn Welnak
A Note on al-Fārābī’s Rhetoric: Following Deeds, not Words
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Ismail Lala
Perceptions of Abraham’s Attempted Sacrifice of Isaac in the Latin Philosophical Tradition, the Sunnī Exegetical Tradition, and by Ibn ʿArabī
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Kierkegaard raises many issues in his account of the near sacrifice of Isaac by his father. Responding to and critiquing Hegelian and Kantian depictions of Abraham, Kierkegaard moves to elevate Abraham into a position as a knight of faith. The Sunnī perception of the incident in the exegetical tradition is far more ethically unequivocal than that of the Latin philosophical tradition. The ubiquitous Sufi theorist, Ibn ʿArabī, however, in a single act of interpretive ingenuity, managed to extirpate the central root of contention raised by the philosophers when he alleges that Abraham was only ever commanded to sacrifice a ram. Despite his abiding commitment to spiritual unveiling (kashf) and his insistence on the personal nature of God, Ibn ʿArabī advocates the employment of a Kantian criterion of universal rationality to adjudicate between literal and metaphorical dreams.
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Aaron Spevack
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Kamal Shlbei
Ṣadrā on Metaphysical Essentialism:
The Unfolding of Existence and the Concealment of Essence
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Safaruk Z. Chowdhury
Invoke Your Lord in Humility and in Secret (Q 7:55): Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Efficacy of Petitionary Prayer
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In this article, I explore the response of the Ashʿarī theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) to what can be called “the problem of the efficacy of petitionary prayers” (PEPP), namely the effectiveness of making supplications to God that involve a request for something. The key text I examine is al-Rāzī’s highly dense philosophical work al-Maṭālib al-ʿāliya min al-ʿilm al-ilāhī, in which he outlines his core objections to the efficacy of petitionary prayer and then addresses them directly. In section 1, I include a short historiography of specific English books on the topic of supplications (duʿāʾ) and consider the relevance of al-Rāzī’s response to the issue of their efficacy. In section 2, I outline the preliminaries necessary and relevant for understanding the discussion that follows. In section 3, I survey al-Rāzī’s view on personal prayers. In section 4, I examine in detail al-Rāzī’s formulations of the arguments (from the Maṭālib) that constitute PEPP, with parallel discussions in his huge exegetical work Mafātīḥ al-ghayb. In section 5, I lay out al-Rāzī’s responses to PEPP from the Mafātīḥ in more depth, and draw on theological views from his other works to help support his arguments in the Maṭālib. In the conclusion, I evaluate al-Rāzī’s responses and the wider implications they have on a Muslim’s relation to and understanding of God.
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Catherine Peters
Ibn Sīnā on Nature as Matter and Form: An Exposition of the Physics of the Healing I, 6 and I, 9
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The concept of nature (Gr. phúsis; Ar. ṭabīʿa) lies at the heart of classical physics. Seemingly small differences about nature can blossom into significant disagreements. The present study offers an exposition of certain neglected passages concerning ṭabīʿa in Ibn Sīnā’s al-Samāʿ al-ṭabīʿī(The Physics of the Healing). The predominant view of ṭabīʿa is that it as an active principle, a conception of nature that radically departs from Aristotle’s account of phúsis in Physics I-II. I dispute this interpretation by investigating two neglected texts in the Physics of the Healing. First, these texts indicate that nature should be associated with matter and form (I, 6) and, second, they argue that failing to account for matter and form makes knowledge of nature incomplete (I, 9).
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