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Brief Bibliographic Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY (2009-2010) 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 sent me a copy of their publications or photocopies of tables of contents. Collective Works or Collections of Articles Avicenna and his Legacy: A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy, ed. by Y. Tzvi Langermann (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 8). Turnhout: Brepols, 2009, xvi-381 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-52753-6. The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. by Robert Pasnau with Christina Van Dyke, 2 vol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, vol. I: xiv-535 pp. & vol. II: viii and 537-1220 pp., ISBN set 978-0-521-86672-9. Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today, ed. by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka & Nazif Muhtaroglu (Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue 4). Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London-New York: Springer, 2010, xii-186 pp., ISBN 978-90-481- 3572-1. Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by his Students and Colleagues, ed. by Beatrice Gruendler with Michael Cooperson. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2008, xxxvi-611 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-16573-1. Florilegium mediaevale. Etudes offertes à Jacqueline Hamesse à l’occasion de son éméritat, ed. by José Meirinhos & Olga Weijers (Textes et études du Moyen Âge 50). Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, 2009 [in fact 2010], xxxiv-636 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-53146-5. Ibn Khaldûn et la fondation des sciences sociales, ed. by Zeïneb Ben Saïd Cherni & Georges Labica. Paris: Publisud, 2009, 144 pp., ISBN 978-2-86600-601-4. Ibn Taymiyya and his Times, ed. by Yossef Rapoport & Shahab Ahmed (Studies in Islamic Philosophy 4). Karachi-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv-400 pp., ISBN 978-0-19- 547834-1. In Aristotelis Analytica Posteriora: Estudos acerca da recepção medieval dos Segundos Analíticos, ed. by Alfredo Carlos Storck. Porto Alegre: Linus Editores, 2009, 298 pp., ISBN 978-85-60063-10-9. In the Age of Averroes: Arabic Philosophy in the Sixth/Twelfth Century, ed. by Peter Adamson. London: Warburg Institute, 2011, 290 pp., ISBN 978-0-85481-154-0. Knowledge, Language, Thought and the Civilization of Islam: Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, ed. by Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud & Muhammad Zainiy Uthman. Johor Darul Ta’zim, Malaysia: UTM, 2010, 566 pp., ISBN 978-983-52-0726-6 & 0725- 9 pbk. Substance and Attribute: Western and Islamic Tradition in Dialogue, ed. by Christian Kanzian & Muhammad Legenhausen (Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. New Series 5). Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007, 248 pp., ISBN 978-3-938793-68-8. Les Syriaques transmetteurs de civilisations. L’expérience du Bilâd el-Shâm à l’époque Omeyyade (Patrimoine Syriaque. Actes du Colloque IX). Paris: L’Harmattan, CERO, 2005, 295 pp., ISBN 9953-0-0369-6. Thâbit ibn Qurra: Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Baghdad, ed. by Roshdi Rashed (Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 4). Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, x-790 pp, ISBN 978- 3-11-022078-0. Via Alberti. Texte-Quellen-Interpretationen, ed. by Ludger Honnefelder, Hannes Möhle & Susana Bullido del Barrio (Subsidia Albertina II). Munster: Aschendorff, 2009, 610 pp., ISBN 978-3-402-11715-6. Section I. Falsafa New Journal Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook is an annual published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, and the Iranian Institute of Philosophy in Moscow. Articles are either in English or in Russian. The first volume came out in 2010, 591 pp., ISBN 978-5-9551- 0402-7. There are English summaries for the articles in Russian. Special Issues of Journal Diogène, n. 226 (April 2009), focuses on Philosophie et Islam dans les sociétés musulmanes. Documenti e Studi, 21 (2010), is dedicated to Arabic philosophy and ed. by Amos Bertolacci. Vivarium, 48.1 (2010), focuses on Aristotelian Logic East and West, 500-1500: On Interpretation and Prior Analytics in Two Traditions. Bibliographies and Chronicles Druart, Thérèse-Anne, “Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology (2008-2009),” https://philosophy.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty- profiles/druart-therese-anne/Publications/brief-bibliographical-guide-08-09.pdf. Greek, Persian, and Syriac Sources Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Aristotle’s “On Coming-to-Be and Perishing 2.2-5”, transl. from Arabic by Emma Gannagé with Peter Adamson as guest editor. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005, xii-168 pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-4335-0. Alon, Ilai, “Socrates in Arabic Philosophy,” in A Companion to Socrates, ed. by Sara Ahbel- Rappe and Rachana Kamtekar (Malden-London-Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 317-36, ISBN 978-1-4051-0863-8. Aouad, Maroun, “Rhétorique aristotélicienne (rhetorica) et faculté oratoire (oratoria/balâgha) selon les Didascalia in “Rethoricam (sic!)” Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabii,” in Classical Arabic Humanities, pp. 40-61. Brock, Sebastian, “Du grec en syriaque: l’art de la traduction chez les Syriaques,” in Les Syriaques, pp. 9-34. Cameron, Margaret & Marenbon, John, “Aristotelian Logic East and West, 500-1500: On Interpretation and Prior Analytics in Two Traditions: Introduction,” Vivarium, 48 (2010): 1-6. Eichner, Heidrun, “Al-Fârâbî and Ibn Sînâ on ‘Universal Science’ and the System of Sciences: Evidence of the Arabic Tradition of the Posterior Analytics,” Documenti e Studi, 21 (2010): 71- 95. El Bousklaoui, Said, “ ‘Yahyâ al-Nahwî in the Arabic Bio-bibliographical Sources,” Journal of the Faculty of Letters (Rabat), 29 (2009): 57-81 [in Arabic]. -------, “The Alexandrian School and Some Elements of its Continuity in the Islamic Era,” in The Institutions of Science and Learning in Islamic Civilization,” ed. by Bennacer El Bouazzati (Rabat: Faculty of Letters, 2008), pp. 11-43 [in Arabic]. El Fekkak, Badr, “Alexander’s ‘Inâya Transformed: Justice as Divine Providence in Al- Fârâbî,” Documenti e Studi, 21 (2010): 1-17. Filius, Lou S., “The Genre Problemata in Arabic. Its Motions and Changes,” in Aristotle’s “Problemata” in Different Times and Tongues, ed. by Pieter De Leemans & Michèle Goyens (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. Series I. Studia 39) (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2006), pp. 33-54. Fiori, E., “L’épitomé syriaque du traité sur les causes du tout d’Alexandre d’Aphrodise attribué à Serge de Reš’ayn?,” Le Muséon, 123, 1-2 (2010): 127-58 [critical ed. and annotated French translation]. Garrido Clemente, Pilar, “El debate acerca del presunto influjo del Pseudo-Empédocles en el pensamiento de Ibn Massarra de Córdoba,” Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval, 16 (2009): 11-33. Gignoux, Philippe, “La transmission de l’héritage grec aux Arabes par les Syriens,” in Les Syriaques, pp. 51-65. Gutas, Dimitri, “Origins in Baghdad,” in Cambridge Hist. Med. Philosophy, I, pp. 11-25. -------, “Greek Philosophical Works Translated into Arabic,” in Appendix B: Medieval Translations in Cambridge Hist. Med. Philosophy, II, pp. 802-14. -------, “Some Morphological Functions of Arabic bi-: On the Uses of Galex, II,” in Classical Arabic Humanities, pp. 62-67. Hansberger, Rotraud E., “Kitâb al-Hiss wa-l-mahsûs. Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia in Arabic Guise,” in Les Parva Naturalia d’Aristote. Fortune antique et médiévale, ed. by Christophe Grellard & Pierre-Marie Morel (Philosophie 28). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010, pp. 143-62. -------, “How Aristotle Came to Believe in God-given Dreams: The Arabic Version of De divinatione per somnum,” in Dreaming across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands, ed. by Louise Marlow (Ilex Foundation Series) (Boston, Mass.: Ilex Foundation, 2008), pp. 50-77. Hugonnard-Roche, Henri, “Platon syriaque,” in Pensée grecque et sagesse d’orient. Hommage à Michel Tardieu, ed. by M.-A. Amir Moezzi, J.D. Dubois, C. Jullien & F. Jullien (Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses 142). Turnhout: Brepols, 2010, pp. 307-22 [ISBN 978-2-503-52995-0]. -------, “La philosophie en syriaque à l’époque des Omeyyades,” in Les Syriaques, pp. 51-65. Janos, Damien, “The Greek and Arabic Proclus and al-Fârâbî’s Theory of Celestial Intellection in its Relation to Creation,” Documenti e Studi, 21 (2010): 19-44. King, Daniel, “Alexander of Aphrodisias’ On the Principles of the Universe in a Syriac Adaptation,” Le Muséon, 123,1-2 (2010): 159-91. López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier, “El conocimiento animal en Aristóteles y Avicena,” Acta Philosophica, 19 (2010): 125-44. -------, “El Liber de Pomo en la tradición árabe-islámica,” Méthexis, 22 (2009): 151-61. Mårtensson, U., “ “The Persuasive Proof”: A Study of Aristotle’s Politics and Rhetoric in the Qur’ân and in al-Tabarî’s Commentary,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 34 (2008): 363- 420. Martini Bonadeo, Cecilia, “ ‘Abd al-Latîf al-Baghdâdî’s Reception of Book Beta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Against the Background of the Competing Readings by Avicenna and Averroes,” Documenti e Studi, 21 (2010): 411-31. McCollum, Adam, “What Does Syriac Masparta Mean? A Look at the Syriac and Arabic Versions of the De Mundo,” Le Muséon, 123,1-2 (2010): 193-202 [it means scissors]. Stepanyants, Marietta, “Models of Philosophical Encounter: The Case of Zoroastrianism and Islam,” Ishraq, 1 (2010): 46-60. Theophrastus, On First Principles (known as his Metaphysics), Greek Text and Medieval Arabic Translation, ed. & transl. with Intro., Commentaries and Glossaries, as well as the Medieval Latin Translation, and with an Excursus on Graeco-Arabic Editorial Technique by Dimitri Gutas (Philosophia Antiqua 119). Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010, xxiv-506 pp., ISBN 978- 90-04-17903-5. Vagelpohl, Uwe, “The Prior Analytics in the Syriac and Arabic Traditions,” Vivarium, 48 (2010): 134-58. Van Reeth, Jan F.M., “Éléments de théodicée syrienne de Jean Philopon au Causa causarum,” in Les Syriaques, pp. 151-64. Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Byzantine, Renaissance, and Modern Translations and Influences Adamson, Peter, “Freedom and determinism,” in Cambridge Hist.
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