A.R. Booth Analytic Islamic Philosophy Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today
▶ Fills a gap in the field by presenting research on analytic Islamic philosophy in a newly accessible textbook format ▶ Makes significant connections between historic Islamic texts and philosophy and contemporary debates within analytic philosophy ▶ Takes a pedagogically oriented approach to the topic, including chapter objectives, summaries, and essay questions to encourage further reading around the subject
This book is an introduction to Islamic Philosophy, beginning with its Medieval inception, right through to its more contemporary incarnations. Using the language and conceptual apparatus of contemporary Anglo-American ‘Analytic’ philosophy, this book 1st ed. 2017, XV, 222 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in represents a novel and creative attempt to rejuvenate Islamic Philosophy for a modern color. audience. It adopts a ‘rational reconstructive’ approach to the history of philosophy A product of Palgrave Macmillan UK by affording maximum hermeneutical priority to the strongest possible interpretation of a philosopher’s arguments while also paying attention to the historical context in which they worked. The central canonical figures of Medieval Islamic Philosophy Printed book – al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna, al-Ghazali, Averroes – are presented chronologically along with an introduction to the central themes of Islamic theology and the Greek Softcover philosophical tradition they inherited. The book then briefly introduces what the author 54,99 € | £29.99 | $54.99 ▶ collectively refers to as the ‘Pre-Modern’ figures including Suhrawardi, Mulla Sadra, and *58,84 € (D) | 60,49 € (A) | CHF 65.00 ▶ Ibn Taymiyyah, and presents all of these thinkers, along with their Medieval predecessors, as forerunners to the more modern incarnation of Islamic Philosophy: Political Islam. eBook Available from your bookstore or ▶ springer.com/shop
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