Sumários
Reading Plato’s Republic in the Muslim West
9 Novembro 2023, 09:30 • Nuha Alshaar
Averroes,
On Plato’s Republic, trans. R. Lerner, (Ithaca: CUP, 1974), book 2.
Halper,
Y. “Expelling Dialectics from the Ideal State: Making the World Safe for
Philosophy in Averroes’ Commentary on Plato’s Republic,” in Plato’s Republic in
the Islamic Context: New Perspectives on Averroes’ Commentary, ed. by A. Orwin,
(Boydell & Brewer online, 2020), pp. 69-86.
The Main Philosophical Themes of the Ismaīlīs
2 Novembro 2023, 09:30 • Nuha Alshaar
Paul
Walker, ‘the Ismaīlīs” in The Cambridge Companion of Arabic Philosophy,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 72-91.
Frank Griffel “Isma'ilite
Critique of Ibn Sina: Al-Shahrastani's (d.1153) Wrestling-Match with the
Philosophers” The Oxford
Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Topic:
Avicenna on the Role of the Prophet and Law in the City
Avicenna. Al-Shifāʾ, al-Ilāhiyyāt,
ed. and trans. M. E. Marmura, (Utah: BYU, 2005), chapters 4 and 5.
Marmura, M.
“Avicenna’s Psychological Proof of Prophecy,” Journal of Eastern Studies,
22 (1963), pp.49-56.
Virtue Ethics
26 Outubro 2023, 09:30 • Nuha Alshaar
Ikhwān
al-Ṣafā‘ (The
Brethren of Purity), the Epistle on Akhlāq
Miskawayh,
The Refinement of Character, trans. C. Zurayk, (Beirut: AUB, 1968), book 2.
Daiber,
H. “Miskawayh’s Purity of the Soul as a Program Leading to Ethicization of
Knowledge,” chapter in From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond, Volume
2, (Brill: Leiden, 2021), pp. 501-518.
Abū Ḥayyan
al-Tawḥīdī,
On Friendship and the Friend, an introduction pp. 1-12 (Nuha Alshaar’s
translation in Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of
al-Tawḥīdī and His Contemporaries, London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 187- 193.
Nuha Alshaar. ‘The
Interplay of Religion and Philosophy in al-Tawḥīdī’s Political Thought and
Practical Ethics,’ in Bouhafa, F. (2022).
Towards New Perspectives on Ethics in Islam: Casuistry, Contingency, and
Ambiguity. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 21(2), 2021,
pp. 313-339.
Sidney H. Griffith, ‘Yahya b. 'Adi
(d.974): Kitab Tahdhib al-akhlaq,’ in El-Rouayheb, Khaled and Schmidtke, Sabine (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Al-Fārābī and the Perfect State in the Islamic Context
19 Outubro 2023, 09:30 • Nuha Alshaar
Tamer, G. “Vortreffliche und mangelhafte Gemeinwesen“
(Kap. 15 und 18–19) in Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī: Die Prinzipien der Ansichten der
Bewohner der vortrefflichen Stadt, ed. U. Rudolph, (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2020), pp.129- 144.
The issue of reason versus revelation/ reconciling religion and philosophy
12 Outubro 2023, 09:30 • Nuha Alshaar
Al-Farabi,
Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Sina’s philosophy of Religion.
Reading
from Ibn Tufayl’s novel Hayy Ibn Yaqẓan, pages to be confirmed.
Paul E. Walker: “Philosophy of
Religion in al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Ṭufayl” in Reason and Inspiration in
Islam, ed. Tedd Lawson, London: I.B. Tauris, 2005, pp.
85-101.
Richard Martin, et al., eds., Defenders
of Reason in Islam: Mu’tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol (Oxford:
Oneworld, 1997) 204.
Averroes , Ibn Rushd.