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Brief Bibliographic Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY (2010-2011) 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. Collective Works or Collections of Articles Albertus Magnus und der Ursprung der Universitätsidee. Die Begegnung der Wissenschaftskulturen im 13. Jahrhundert und die Entdeckung des Konzepts der Bildung durch Wissenschaft, ed. by Ludger Honnefelder. Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2011, 560 pp., ISBN 9783862800070. Angeli: Ebraismo, Cristianesimo, Islam, ed. by Giorgio Agamben & Emanuele Coccia. Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2012 pp., ISBN 978885400648 [Islamic section ed. by Olga Lizzini & Samuela Pagani, pp. 1453-2012]. Christlicher Norden-Muslimischer Süden. Ansprüche und Wirklichkeiten von Christen, Juden und Muslimen auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im Hoch-und Spätmittelalter, ed. by Matthias M. Tischler & Alexander Fidora (Erudiri Sapientia 7). Munster: Aschendorff, 2011, 789 pp., ISBN 9783402104279. Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought: A Compendium of parallel English- Arabic texts, ed. by Bradley J. Cook with Fathi H. Malkawi (Islamic Translation Series). Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, xviii-307+241 (Arabic) pp., ISBN 978-0-8425-2763-7. De las Pasiones en la Filosofía Medieval. Actas del X Congreso Latinoamericano de Filosofía Medieval, ed. by Giannina Burlando B. Santiago. Chile: Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Filosofía & Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, 2009, 459 pp., ISBN 9789563198515. Expertus sum. L’expérience par les sens dans la philosophie naturelle médiévale. Actes du colloque international de Pont-à-Mousson (5-7 février 2009), ed. by Thomas Bénatouïl & Isabelle Draelants (Micrologus Library). Florence : SISMEL, 2011, viii-470 pp., ISBN 9788884504043. Fortresses of the Intellect : Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary, ed. by Omar Ali-de-Unzaga. London & New York : I.B. Tauris with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011, xvii-600 pp., ISBN 9781848856264. Immaginario e immaginazione nel medioevo, ed. by Maria Bettetini & Francesco Paparella with Roberto Furlan (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 51). Louvain-la-Neuve : Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, 2009), 400 pp., ISBN 9782503531502. Islamic Philosophy, Science, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas, ed. by Felicitas Opwis & David Reisman (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science 83). Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012, xii-493 pp., ISBN 9789004202740. La Letteratura arabo-cristiana e le scienze nel periodo abbaside (750-1250 d.C.). Atti del 2o convegno di studi arabo-cristiani, Roma 9-10 marzo 2007, ed. by Davide Righi (Patrimonio culturale arabo cristiano 11). Turin: Silvio Zamorani, 2008, 322 pp., ISBN 9788871581637. La lumière de l’intellect. La pensée scientifique et philosophique d’Averroès dans son temps. Actes du IVe colloque international de la SIHSPAI (Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques) Cordoue, 9-12 décembre 1998, ed. by Ahmad Hasnawi and with a Foreword by Roshdi Rashed. Leuven: Peeters, 2011, xii-528 pp., ISBN 9789042926028. Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, ed. by Joshua Parens & Joseph C. Macfarland, 2nded. (Agora). Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2011, xii-443 pp., ISBN 9780801449628 cloth; 801476815 pbk [Islamic section pp. 9-143; the 1963 first ed. had been ed. by Ralph Lerner & Muhsin Mahdi]. Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic and Jewish Traditions, ed. by Arthur Hyman, James J. Walsh & Thomas Williams, 3rd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010, xvi-711pp., ISBN 9781603842099 cloth; 60384-208-2 pbk [Islamic section pp. 215-333; 2nd ed. 1983]. Reason, Spirit and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment: Islamic Metaphysics Revived and Recent Phenomenology of Life, ed. by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue 5). Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, viii-207 pp., ISBN 978- 90-481-9612-8. Le Shî’isme Imâmite Quarante Ans Après. Hommage à Etan Kohlberg, ed. by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Meir M. Bar-Asher & Simon Hopkins (Biliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses 137). Turnhout: Brepols, 2009, 438 pp., ISBN 9782503531144. The Three Rings: Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianism and Islam, ed. by Barbara Roggema, Marcel Poorthuis & Pim Valkenberg (Publications of the Thomas Instituut te Utrecht 11). Leuven: Peeters, 2005, xxii-297 pp., ISBN 9042915633. Watt, John W., Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac (Variorum CS960). Farnham, Surry: Ashgate, 2010, xiv-314 pp., ISBN 9781409400202. Well Begun is Only Half Done: Tracing Aristotle’s Political Ideas in Medieval Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Sources, ed. by Vasileios Syros (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 388; Medieval Confluences Series 1). Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2011, xiv-226 pp., ISBN 9780866984362. Section I. Falsafa Bibliographies and Chronicles Daiber, Hans, Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, vol. 1 (in 2 vol.) & vol. 2. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2011, ISBN 9789004202382 [paperback reprint of the 1999 ed.]. Druart, Thérèse-Anne, “Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology (2009-2010),” https://philosophy.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty- profiles/druart-therese-anne/Publications/brief-bibliographical-guide-2009-10.pdf. Online Dictionary of Arabic Philosophical Terms Andreas Lammer has begun an online dictionary of Arabic philosophical terms. It can be accessed at http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/dict . New Journals Journal of Islamic Research is published twice a year by the Islamic University of Europe located in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It began in 2008 and can be accessed on the internet at http://www.iueurope.com . It includes articles in Turkish, English, French and German. Studia graeco-arabica is the on line journal of the European Research Council Advanced Grant Greek into Arabic. Philosophical Concepts and LinguisticBridges. It features critical articles and reviews on the transmission of philosophical and scientific texts from and into various languages – Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Latin – from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The first issue came out in 2011. The journal can be accessed at http://www.greekintoarabic.edu/index.php?id=20. Resurrected Journal Oriens published its vol. 35 in 1996 and its vol. 36 in honor of Rosenthal in 2001. Vol. 37 was published in 2009, vol. 38 in 2010, and the two issues of vol. 39 in 2011 by Brill. The journal is directed by Gerhard Endress, Cornelia Schöck & Florian Schwarz. Special Issues of Journals Arabica, 58.1/2 (2011) centers on Les Nusayris et les Druzes: deux communautés ésotériques à la périphérie doctrinale de l’Islam. Actes des journées d’études organisées par Daniel De Smet et Orkhan Mir-Kasimov. Nantes – Paris, 18-19 juin 2009 [Hassan Ansari, “L’héritage ésotérique du chiisme: un livre sur l’exégèse de la sourate 97,” 7-18; Bruno Paoli, “La diffiusion de la doctrine nusayrie au IVe/Xe siècle d’après le Kitâb Khayr al-sanî’a du cheikh Husayn Mayhûb Harfûsh,” 1952; Bella Tendler Krieger, “Marriage, Birth, and bâtinî ta’wîl: A Study of Nusayrî Initiation Based on the Kitâb al-Hâwî fî ‘ilm al-fatâwî of Abû Sa’îd Maymûn al-Tabarânî,” 53- 75; Kais M. Firro, “The Druze Faith: Origin, Development and Interpretation,” 76-99; Daniel De Smet, “La Loi Spirituelle (al-sharî’a l-rûhâniyya) druze selon Hamza b. ‘Alî: textes canoniques et apocryphes,” 100-27; & Wissam Halabi-Halawi, “Le Kitâb Durrat al-taj wa-sullam al- mi’raj d’Ibn Nasr: un éloge de Jamâl al-Dîn ‘Abd Allâh al-Tanûhî (820/1417-884/1479),” 128- 64]. Concordia, 59 (2011) focuses on contemporary Arabic philosophy [Mohamed Arkoun, “Reform oder Subversion? Zu einer Politik der Vernunft,” 5-13; Sadik Jalel al-Azm, “Der säkulare Staat und die religiöse Frage: Das Modell Türkei. Ein philosophisch-politischer Beitrag,” 15-31; Hassan Hanafi, “From Orientalism to Occidentalism,” 33-40; Ali Harb, “Philosophische Schriften in arabischer Sprache: Ihre Leistung—ihr Dilemma—ihre Zielsetzung,” 41-56; Mohamed Mesbahi, “In welchem Sinn könnte Ibn Rushd einen Zugang zum Dialog der Kulturen bieten?,” 57-69; Fuad Zakariya, “Die Prinzipien der Menschenrechte in der Zeitgenössischen islamischen Welt,” 71-82; Fahmi Jadaane, “Féminisme et Islam,” 83-91; Fathi Triki, “Para una razonabilidad de la convivencia,” 93-101; & Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri im Gespräch, “Rationalismus, Politik und Erkenntnistheorie. Ein Beitrag zur arabisch-islamischen Philosophie der Gegenwart,” 103-16]. Islam & Science, 9.2 (Winter 2011) is dedicated to al-Ghazâlî. Articles by M. Iqbal, M. Hozein, Wan Abdullah and F. Shu’ayb. For detail see section on al-Ghazâlî. Journal of Islamic Philosophy, 6 (2010), is a special issue on Mullâ Sadrâ. Articles by M. Massi Dakake, D.B. Burrell, S. Kamada, Y. Eshots, Z. Moris & M. Rustom. For detail see section on Mullâ Sadrâ. Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph celebrates one hundred years at the service of sciences (1906-2006) and so dedicates its volume 62 (2009) to two themes: 1. The Founders and 2. Just war in the ancient and medieval Near East: Historical, philosophical and juridical approaches. Rue Descartes, 61 (Sept. 2008)
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