Mu‘tazilite and Ash‘arite Ethics

28 Setembro 2023, 09:30 • Nuha Alshaar

Ghazālī, Translation of a section from Kitāb al-Mustaṣfā in Before Revelation, K. Reinhart, (New York: SUNY, 1995), pp87-104. 

Shihadeh, A. “Theories of Ethical Value in Kalām: a New Interpretation,” in Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, ed. by S. Schmidtke, (Oxford: OUP, 2016), pp. 384-407. 

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Introduction to falsafa in Islamic Context

21 Setembro 2023, 09:30 • Nuha Alshaar

Peter. Adamson: Chapter 1 and 2 in Philosophy in the Islamic World: A very Short Introduction. Oxford, 2015.

Dimitri Gutas., ‘The Study of Arabic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 29 (1) 2002, pp. 2-25.

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Early Philosophical Ethical Discussions

14 Setembro 2023, 09:30 • Nuha Alshaar

al-Kindī, “On Dispelling Sorrow and the Sayings of Socrates,” in the Philosophical Works of al-Kindī, ed. by P. Adamson and P. Pormann, (Oxford: OUP, 2021), pp. 245-267. 

Fakhry, M. “Socratic and Stoic Preludes,” chapter from Ethical Theories in Islam, (Brill: Leiden, 1991), pp.67-77.

Peter Adamson “al-Kindī and the Reception of Greek philosophy” In  The Cambridge Companion of Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 32-51.

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