Philosophy, theology and mysticism in medieval Islam / Richard M. Frank ; edited by Dimitri Gutas.
The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on the text and terminology of Graeco-Arabic translations (De...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Great Britain ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2016.
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| Series: | Texts and studies on the development and history of Kalām ;
vol. 1. Collected studies ; CS833. |
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| Summary: | The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on the text and terminology of Graeco-Arabic translations (De anima, Themistius on the Metaphysics, Plotinus in Syriac, 'anniya) and the terminology of early kalam. Other articles deal with Islamic theology and its early development, especially in its relation to philosophy (in particular the kalam of Jahm ibn Safwan and al-Ghazali), and the text and translation of two short dogmatic works by the mystic al-Qushayri. The collection is prefaced by a fascinating autobiographical memoir which traces the intellectual development of the author and the reasoning that led him, from study to study, to his discovery of the way of thinking of the theologians and to an understanding of the essential core of Islamic theology. |
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| Item Description: | "First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781003110378 1003110371 9781000226232 1000226239 9781000226393 1000226395 9781000226317 100022631X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Richard M. Frank is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures, at the Catholic University of America, USA. Dimitri Gutas is Professor of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic at Yale University, USA. |