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Brief Bibliographic Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE IN MEDIEVAL AND POST-CLASSICAL ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY (2017-2018) 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. Collective Works or Collections of Articles Arab Christians and the Qur’an from the Origins of Islam to the Medieval Period, ed. by Mark Beaumont (The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 35). Leiden: Brill, 2018, xiv-216 pp., ISBN 9789004360693. The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Physics and Cosmology, ed. by Dag Nikolaus Hasse & Amos Bertolacci (Scientia graeco-arabica 23). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, viii- 549 pp., ISBN 9781614517740. Between the Cross and the Crescent. Studies in Honor of Samir Khalil Samir, S.J., on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, ed. by Željko Paša, S.J. (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 304). Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2018, xliv-798 pp., ISBN ??? Commenting on Aristotle’s Rhetoric from Antiquity to the Present / Commenter la Rhétorique d’Aristote, de l’Antiquité à la période contemporaine, ed. by Frédérique Woerther (International Studies in the History of Rhetoric 11). Leiden: Brill, 2018, xxiv-322 pp., ISBN 9789004376243. Edizioni, traduzioni e tradizioni filosofiche (secoli XII-XVI). Studi per Pietro B. Rossi, ed. by Luca Bianchi, Onorato Grassi & Cecilia Panti, vol. I (Flumen Sapientiae 7). Canterano: Aracne, 2018, 340 pp., ISBN 9788825516623. Esprit critique et textes sacrés, ed. by Marie-Thérèse Urvoy (Studia Arabica 26). Versailles: Éditions de Paris, 2016, 276 pp., ISBN 9782851622983. Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy, ed. by Alireza Korangy, Wheeler M. Thackston, Roy P. Mottahedeh & William Granara (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 31). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016, xxxiv-442 pp., ISBN 9783110313727 & e-bk 9783110383249. Exchange and Transmission across Cultural Boundaries: Philosophy, Mysticism and Science in the Mediterranean World. Proceedings of an International Workshop Held in Memory of Professor Shlomo Pines at The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 28 February-2 March 2005, ed. by Haggai Ben-Shammai, Shaul Shaked & Sarah 1 Stroumsa (Studies in Humanities). Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2013, x-295 pp., ISBN 9789652081889. Die Geheimnisse der oberen und der unteren Welt: Magie im Islam zwischen Glaube und Wissenschaft, ed. Sebastian Günther & Dorothee Pielow (Islamic History and Civilization 158). Leiden: Brill, 2018, xlii-644 pp., ISBN 9789004387577. The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning. Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, ed. by Maurice A. Pomerantz & Aram A. Shahin (Islamic History and Civilization 122). Leiden: Brill, 2015, xliii- 654 pp., ISBN 9789004305908. Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies: Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai, ed. by Ali Gheissari, Ahmed Alwishah & John Walbridge (Iran Studies 16). Leiden: Brill, 2017, xx-326 pp., ISBN 9789004356580. Interpreting Averroes, ed. by Peter Adamson & Matteo Di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 for e-bk & 2019 for hardback, x-264 pp., ISBN 9781107114883 & e-bk 9781108651578. Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century, ed. by Abdelkader Al Ghouz (Mamluk Studies 20). Goettingen: V&R unipress, Bonn University Press, 2018, 505 pp., ISBN 9783847109006. Islamische Philosophie: Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zu Al-Kindi, ed. by Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Muhammad Sameer Murtaza & Ecevit Polat; Band 2: Islamische Philosophie im Konflikt -- von Al-Razi und Al-Farabi bis Ibn Miskawai, ed. by Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Muhammad Sameer Murtaza, Mahdi Esfahani & Büsra Yücel. Hamburg: Tradition, Bd. 1, 2016, 192 pp., ISBN 9783734552106 & Bd. 2, 2017, 118 pp., ISBN 9783743987746. La magia naturale tra Medioevo e prima età moderna, ed. by Lorenzo Bianchi & Antonella Sannino (Micrologus Library 89). Florence: SISMEL, 2018, vi-361 pp., ISBN 9788884508485. Mapping Knowledge: Cross-Pollination in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. by Charles Burnett & Pedro Mantas-España (Arabica Veritas 1). Cordoba: CNERU & London: The Warburg Institute, 2014, x-292 pp., ISBN 9788461697441. Miroir de l’amitié. Mélanges offerts à Joël Biard, ed. by Christophe Grellard (Études de Philosophie Médiévale CVI). Paris: Vrin, 2017, 564 pp., ISBN 9782711627929. The Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Cultures, ed. by Nader El-Bizri & Eva Orthmann (Beiruter Texte und Studien 138). Beirut: in association with Ergon Verlag in Würburg, 2018, 264 pp., ISBN 9783956502910. The Parva naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism: Supplementing the Science of the Soul, ed. by Börje Bydén & Filip Radovic (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 17). Cham: Springer, 2018, viii-368 pp., ISBN 9783319269030; e-bk 9783319269047. 2 Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam, ed. by Peter Adamson & Peter E. Pormann (Warburg Instiute Colloquia 31). London: The Warburg Institute, 2017, vi-308 pp., ISBN 9781908590541. Philosophy and the Intellectual Life in Shî’ah Islam, ed. by Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad & Sajjad H. Rizvi (The Shîah Institute Symposia Series 1). London: The Shi’ah Institute Press, 2017, 276 pp., ISBN 9780993588433. Proclus and His Legacy, ed. by Danielle A. Layne & David D. Butorac (Millenium-Studien/ Millenium Studies 65). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017, x-456 pp., ISBN 9783110466997 & e-bk 978311047625. Die Seele im Mittelalter. Von der Substanz zum funktionalen System, ed. by Günther Mensching & Alia Mensching-Estakhr (Contardiction, Studien zur Philosophie und ihrer Geschichte 16). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018, 215 pp., ISBN 9783826060274. The Spirit and the Letter: Approaches to the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qur’an, ed. by Annabel Keeler & Sajjad Rizvi (Qur’anic Studies). Oxford: Oxford University Press with the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, 2016, xxiv-538 pp., ISBN 9780198783336. Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018, ed. by Sabine Schmidtke. Piscaway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018, 680 pp., ISBN 9781463207502. Sujet libre. Pour Alain de Libera, ed. by Jean-Baptiste Brenet & Laurent Cesalli. Paris: Vrin, 2018, 352 pp., ISBN 9782711628377. Vajda, Georges, Pensées médiévales en hébreu et en arabe. Études (1931-1981), ed. by Elisa Coda (Études musulmanes 49). Paris: Vrin, 2016, xxviii-346 pp., ISBN 9782711627332. La zoologia di Aristotele e la sua ricezione dall’età ellenistica e romana alle culture medievali, Atti della X “Settimana di Formazione” del Centro GrAL, Pisa, 18-20 novembre 2015, ed. by Maria Michela Sassi with Elisa Coda & Giuseppe Feola (Greco, Arabo, Latino. Le vie del sapere, Studi 6). Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2017, 315 pp., ISBN 9788867418350. Section I. Falsafa Bibliographies and Chronicles Druart, Thérèse-Anne, “Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval and Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy and Theology (2016-2017).” https://philosophy.catholic.edu/faculty-and- research/faculty-profiles/druart-therese-anne/Publications/druartbiblio17-18.pdf Special Issues of Journals Ishraq, 8 (2017) includes a long section on Plato and Platonism in Islamic Philosophy with articles by Said Rahimian, Janis Esots, Reza Akbarian & Tayiba Karami, Mathieu Terrier, Nariman Aavani, Ishat Nasirov, Tatyana Korneeva, and Jad Hatem. 3 The Maghreb Review dedicates the second issue of volume 43 (2018) to Islamic Philosophy. Mohammad Azadpur is the editor. Articles by Michael Nafi, Mohammad Azadpur, Sajjad Rizvi and Fitzroy Morrissey. It includes a very selected bibliography of books on pp. 198-202. Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph dedicates a section of its vol. 68 (2017-2018) to The Reception of Classical Arabic Philosophy in the Ottoman Empire with articles by C. D’Ancona, N. Zouggar, R.P. Ansari, A. Bertolacci, G. Celli, S. Di Vincenzo, Ch. Genequand & T. Morel, and M.S. Özervarli. It focuses another section on new discoveries in the Syriac and Arabic Manuscripts with articles by Z. Bou Akl, S. Di Vincenzo, J. Jabbour, M.C. Kaya, St. Di Pietrantonio and T. Morel. MIDÉO, Mélanges de l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales, Cairo, dedicates most of its vol. 33 (2018) to the Muslim Theology of Religions. Articles by A.-S. Boisliveau, D. Thomas, E. Pisani, G. Jenvrin, G. de Vaulx d’Arcy & M. Terrier. The Muslim World, vol. 108, issue 1(2018) was edited by Caterina Bori and focuses on Ibn Taymiyya and the reception of his writings and ideas. Articles by F. Griffel, J. Hoover, C. Bori, R. Adem, I. Dayeh, N. Zouggar & M. Sheikh. Oriens dedicates vol. 46, issues 1-2, to Rationalist Disciplines and Postclassical Islamic Legal Theories, ed. by Asad Q. Ahmed & Robert Gleave. This issue shows the close commection between logic and fiqh. Articles by C.S. El-Tobgui, W.E. Young, A.Q. Ahmed, O. Farahat, N. Kalbarczyk. Studi Magrebini, XII-XIII (2014-2015), t. II is in honor of Carmela Baffioni, articles by M. Borrmans, M. Campanini & A. Cilardo. Studia graeco-arabica, 8 (2018) is dedicated to the memory of Maurice Borrmans. Van Ess, Kleine Schriften by Josef van Ess, ed. by Hinrich Biesterfeld, 3 vol. Leiden: Brill, 2018, vol. I, lxxii-596 pp.; vol. II, xviii +
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