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Brief Bibliographic Guide in Medieval and Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy and Theology (2016-2017) BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE IN MEDIEVAL AND POST-CLASSICAL ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY (2016-2017) Thérèse-Anne Druart The Catholic University of America I cannot thank enough all the scholars who kindly sent me information, and, in particular, those who provided me with a copy of their publications or photocopies of tables of contents of collective works. They are true scholars and true friends. I also wish to thank very much colleagues, who patiently checked the draft of this installment and provided supplementary information. Their invaluable help was a true work of mercy. I am very happy to announce that, thanks to Dr. Andreas Lammer’s work and Professor Peter Adamson’s support, the Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München is preparing a combined and searchable version of the installments of this bibliography. The data for the years 2009-2015 have already been put into a new format. We hope to provide a first version of the combined bibliography in 2018. Needless to say, I am most grateful to Professor Adamson, Dr. Andreas Lammer and his team for all their work. Collective Works or Collections of Articles Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfîr, ed. by Camilla Adang, Hassan Ansari, Maribel Fierro & Sabine Schmidtke (Islamic History and Civilization 123). Leiden: Brill, 2016, iixx-534 pp., ISBN 9789004304734, e-bk 9789004307834. Al-Suyûtî, a Polymath of the Mamlûk Period. Proceedings of the themed day of the First Conference of the School of Mamlûk Studies (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, June 23, 2014), ed. by Antonella Ghersetti (Islamic History and Civilization 138). Leiden: Brill, 2017, viii-270 pp., ISBN 9789004334526 & e-bk 9789004334526. Appropriation, Interpretation and Criticism: Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Intellectual Traditions, ed. by Alexander Fidora & Nicola Polloni (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 88). Barcelona-Rome: FIDEM, 2017, xi-336 pp., ISBN 9782503577449. Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond: Études arabes et islamiques en Europe et au-delà: Proceedings of the 26th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Basel 2012, ed. by Maurus Reinkowski & Monika Winet with Sevinç Yasargil (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 248). Leuven: Peeters, 2016, xxiii-403 pp., ISBN 9789042932883. Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought. Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson, ed. by Joseph E. Lowry & Shawkat M. Toorawa (Islamic History and Civilization 141). Leiden: Brill, 2017, 500 pp., ISBN 9789004343245 & e-bk 9789004343290. Contacts and Interaction. Proceedings of the 27th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants Helsinki 2014, ed. by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Petteri Koskikallio & Ilkka Lindstedt (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 254). Leuven-Paris-Bristol: Peeters, 2017, xii- 504 pp., ISBN 9789042934276. L’Ésotérisme shi’ite, ses racines et ses prolongements: Shi’i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments, ed. by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Maria De Cillis, Daniel De Smet & Orkhan Mir-Kasimov (Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses 177). Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, 875 pp., ISBN 978250356874-4 & e-bk 9782503568751. Exegetical Crossroads: Understanding Scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Pre-Modern Orient, ed. by Georges Tamer, Regina Grundmann, Assad Elias Kattan & Karl Pinggéra (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—Tension, Transmission, Transformation 8). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017, viii-399 pp., ISBN 9783110561142, pbk 9783110561449, e-bk 9783110564341. La filosofía en Al Ándalus, ed. by Andrés Martínez Lorca, 2nd ed. Córdoba: Almuzara, 2017, 526 pp., ISBN 9788416776825 [includes a basic bibliography, pp. 93-111; includes Jewish philosophers]. Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazâlî. Papers Collected on His 900th Anniversary, vol. 2, ed. by Frank Griffel (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 98). Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2016, xx-344 pp., ISBN 9789004306950. Jabre, Farid, Essais et articles, intro. and revision by Aïda Jéhamy & Gérard Jéhamy (Pensée religieuse et philosophique arabe). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017, 275 pp. [includes reprints and unpublished articles]. Medieval Textual Cultures: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation, ed. by Faith Wallis & Robert Wisnovsky (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—Tension, Transmission, Transformation 6). Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016, 210 pp., ISBN 9783110465464, e-bk 9783110465709. Philosophy and the Intellectual Life in Shî’ah Islam, ed. by Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad & Sajjad H. Rizvi (London: The Shi’ah Institute Press, 2017), xv-276 pp., ISBN 9780993588433. Philosophy in the Islamic World: Volume 1: 8th-10th Centuries, ed. by Ulrich Rudolph, Rotraud Hansberger, and Peter Adamson and English translation by Rotraud Hansberger (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Handbook der Orientalistik, section 1 The Near and Middle East, 115/1). Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017, xiv-850 pp., ISBN 9789004323162 [a translation with bibliographical updates of Philosophie in der islamischen Welt 1: 8.-10. Jahrhundert, ed. by Ulrich Rudolph with Renate Würsch (Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie). Basel: Schwabe, 2012]. Promisa nec aspera curans. Mélanges offerts à Marie-Thérèse Urvoy, ed. by Georgio Rahal & Heinz-Otto Luthe. Toulouse: Les Presses Universitaires, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, 2017, 1067 pp., ISBN 9781094360408. Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam, ed. by Sabastian Günther and Todd Lawson with Christian Mauder, vol. I: Foundations and Formation of a Tradition: Reflections on the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought & vol. II: Continuity and Change: The Plurality of Eschatological Representations in the Islamicate World (Islamic History and Civilization 136/1-2). Leiden: Brill, 2017, vol. I, xliv-754 pp. & vol. II, xii & 755-1493 pp., ISBN 9789004333130 (set), vol. I 9789004330948, vol. II 9789004330955, e-bk 9789004333154. Syriac in its Multi-cultural Context. First International Syriac Studies Symposium, Mardin Artuklu University, Institute of Living Languages, 20-22 April 2012, Mardin, ed. by H.G.B. Teule, E. Keser-Kayaalp, K. Akalin, N. Doru & M.S. Toprak (Eastern Christian Studies 23). Leuven: Peeters, 2017, xiv-408 pp., ISBN 9789042931640. Tafsîr and Islamic Intellectual History: Exploring the Boundaries of a Genre, ed. by Andreas Görke & Johanna Pink. Oxford: Oxford University Press & London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2014, xii-547 pp., ISBN 9780198702061. Section I. Falsafa Bibliographies and Chronicles Druart, Thérèse-Anne, “Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval and Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy and Theology (2015-2016).” https://philosophy.catholic.edu/faculty-and- research/faculty-profiles/druart-therese-anne/Publications/brief-bibliographical-guide-2015- 16.pdf Janssens, Jules, An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sînâ. Second Supplement (1995- 2009)(Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 439). Tempe, AZ : ACMRS, 2017, xvi-736 pp., ISBN 9780866984874. New Journals Entelekya Logico-Metaphysical Review, directed by Ilyas Altuner, Igdir University, Turkey, can be consulted at www.entelekya.org. It focuses on Aristotle, Plato, Aristotelianism and the Commentators. Volume 1, nn.1-2 (2017) has come out. Shii Studies Review is published by Brill twice a year. Hassan Ansari & Sabine Schmidtke are the Executive Editors. Volume I, issue 1-2 (2017) has already come out. Special Issues of Journals Documenti e studi dedicates its vol. XXVIII (2017) to the Proceedings of the conference “A Crossroad between East and West: The Latin Medieval Translation of the Kitâb al-Shifâ’ (Book of the Cure) of Ibn Sînâ (Avicenna)”, which took place in Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, on 1- 3 July 2015. This volume is edited by Amos Bertolacci & Tommaso Alpina, who wrote a very useful introduction, pp. vii-xviii. Articles by F. Hudry, S. Di Vincenzo, N. Caminada, R. Strobino, G. Celli, F. Woerther, J. Janssens, A. Astesiano, C. Cerami, S. Di Donato, E. Rubino, T. Alpina, A.M.I. van Oppenraay, R. Arnzen, A. Quartucci, A. Bertolacci, N. Polloni & I. Panzeca. Volume 5.1-2 (2017) of Intellectual History of the Islamicate World centers on “Histories of Books in the Islamicate World. Part II. Among others articles by S. Brentjes, M. Forcada, and G. de Callataÿ & S. Moureau. Volumes 5.3 (2017) and 6.1-2 (2018) constitute a special issue on Medical Traditions. Relevant articles by Siam Bhayro, Kamran I. Karimullah, M.A. Mujeeb Khan, Glen M. Cooper and Nahyan Fancy. MIDÉO, 32 (2017) includes a file on “In Islam what does it mean to comment?” This file contains relevant articles by L.W.C. (Eric) van Lit, Nadjet Zouggar, Kamran I. Karimullah & Jan Thiele. Oriens, 45.1-2 (2017), focuses on the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. Articles by P.E. Pormann & K.I. Karimullah, E. van Dalen, T. Mimura, K.I. Katimullah, and N. Fancy. Studi Magrebini, published by the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, dedicates its vol. XII-XIII (2014-15) that just came out to Prof. Carmela Baffioni. This volume is edited by Antonella Straface, Carlo De Angelo & Andrea Manzo and prefaced by Wilferd Madelung. It includes a list of Carmela Baffioni’s publications. Relevant articles by M.A. Amir-Moezzi, C.E. Butterworth, L. Carpentieri, P. Carusi, F. Daftary, H. Daiber, C. D’Ancona, G. de Callataÿ, D. De Smet, N. El-Bizri, A. Hamdani & A. Soufan, H. Hugonnard-Roche, J. Janssens, W. Madelung, M. Maróth, C. Martini Bonadeo,
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