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 GriffelIsma'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-afā‘ (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-Tawīdī, 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-Tawīdī 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

 Al-Fārābī, On the Perfect State: Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī’s Mabādiʾārāʾ ahl al-madīna al-fāḍila, ed. and trans. R. Walzer, (Oxford: OUP, 1985), chapters 15 and 18. 

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.