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This volume offers a new approach in Islamic hermeneutics and the understanding of Qur’anic exegesis, Muslim dialectical theology and the appropriation of Peripatetical logic in the Arabic world. It ranges from the 8th century up to Avicenna (11th century).
€256.00$332.00
This study of the Sicilian Questions of the philosopher and mystic Ibn Sabٴ īn of Murcia (ca. 1217-1270) interprets the structure and sources of the text as a reflection of intellectual life in the late Almohad Arab West.
€115.00$149.00
This study compares Avicenna’s and Thomas Aquinas’ conceptions of God, theological language, the nature of creative action and the beginning of the universe. It emphasizes the connection between their positions regarding theological language and their discussions of creation.
€246.00$319.00
Critical edition of the Arabic Nicomachean Ethics including an introduction on the influence of this major Aristotelian work on Arabic literature, as well as an annotated English translation, both by the late Douglas M. Dunlop.
€213.00$276.00
This catalogue comprises full descriptions of the Arabic manuscripts which entered the Wellcome collections in 1986. A new type of the catalogue entry makes the book useful for specialists in various fields from conservators to historians of medical ethics.
€113.00$146.00
In this publication, the extensive but cautious use of opium in a variety of remedies by Baghdad physicians in the ninth century shows an amazing awareness of the therapeutic usefulness and potential dangers of the opiate.
€163.00$211.00
Based mainly on primary sources and manuscript evidence, this book presents an in-depth study of the life and work of Jār Allāh al-Zamakhsharī (d.538/1144). More specifically, it examines the sources and history, contents and method of his Qurʾān commentary, Kashshāf.
