Islamic philosophy, science, culture, and religion : studies in honor of Dimitri Gutas / edited by Felicitas Opwis and David Reisman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Dedication 2. The Classical Heritage: Islamic Culture 2.1 Graeco-Arabica Christiana: The Christian Scholar {u02BF}Abd Allāh ibn al-Fadl (11th c. A.D.) as Transmitter of Greek Works, Hans Daiber 2.2 Aristo of Ceus: the Fragments concerning Eros, William W. Fortenbaugh 2.3 Professional Medical Ethics from a Foreign Past, David Reisman 2.4 The Arabic History of Science of Abū Sahl ibn Nawbaht (flourished ca 770-809) and Its Middle Persian Sources, Kevin van Bladel 2.5 The Physiology and Therapy of Anger: Galen on Medicine, the Soul, and Nature, Heinrich von Staden 2.6 In Aristotle{u2019}s Words: al-Hātimī{u2019}s (?) Epistle on al-Mutanabbī and Aristotle, Beatrice Gruendler 2.7 The Prison of Categories {u2013} Decline and Its Company, Sonja Brentjes 2.8 Also via Istanbul to New Haven {u2013} Mss Yale Syriac 7-12, Hidemi Takahashi 3. Classical Arabic Science and Philosophy 3.1 A Judeo-Arabic Version of Tābit ibn Qurra{u2019}s De Imaginibus and Ptolemy{u2019}s Opus Imaginum, Charles Burnett and Gideon Bohak 3.2 Ibn Sin̄a{̄u2019}s Ta{u02BF}līqāt: The Presence of Paraphrases of and Super-commentaries on the Ilāhīyāt of the Sǐfā{u02BE}, Jules Janssens 3.3 The Invention of Algebra in Zabīd: Between Legend and Fact, David King 3.4 Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Avicenna{u2019}s Modal Syllogistic, Tony Street 3.5 The Distinction between Essence and Existence in Avicenna{u2019}s Metaphysics: The Text and Its Context, Amos Bertolacci 3.6 Höfischer Stil und wissenschaftliche Rhetorik: al-Kindi ̄als Epistolograph, Gerhard Endress 3.7 New Philosophical Texts of Yahyā ibn {u02BF}Adī: a Supplement to Endress{u2019} Analytical Inventory, Robert Wisnovsky 3.8 Avicenna{u2019}s Notion of Transcendental Modulation of Existence (taškīk al-wuǧūd, analogia entis) and Its Greek and Arabic Sources, Alexander Treiger 4. Muslim Traditional Sciences 4.1 The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the Hermeneutics of the Qur{u02BE}ān in Mu{u02BF}tazila Discourse as Reflected in the Tahdīb of al-Hākim al-Gǐsǔmī (d. 494/1101), Suleiman Mourad 4.2 Attributing Causality to God{u2019}s Law: the Solution of Fahr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī, Felicitas Opwis 4.3 Kitāb al-Hayda: The Historical Significance of an Apocryphal Text, Racha El Omari 4.4 From al-Ma{u02BE}mūn to Ibn Sab{u02BF}īn via Avicenna: Ibn Taymīya{u2019}s Historiography of Falsafa, Yahya Michot

Islamic intellectual thought is at the center of this collection of articles honoring Dimitri Gutas by friends, colleagues, and former students. The essays cover three main areas: the classical heritage and Islamic culture; classical Arabic science and philosophy; and Muslim traditional sciences. They show the interconnectedness between the Islamic intellectual tradition and its historical predecessors of Greek and Persian provenance, ranging from poetry to science and philosophy. Yet, at the same time, the authors demonstrate the independence of Muslim scholarship and the rich inner-Muslim debates that brought forth a flourishing scholastic culture in the sciences, philosophy, literature, and religious sciences. This collection also reflects the breadth of contemporary research on the intellectual traditions of Islamic civilization.