Interpreting Averroes: Critical Essays

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Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen) Matteo Di Giovanni (Providence College, Rhode Island)

Interpreting Averroes

Critical Essays

Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen), Matteo Di Giovanni (Providence College, Rhode Island)

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Cambridge University Press
20 August 2020

Islamic & Arabic philosophy; Islam

This volume brings together world-leading scholars on the thought of Averroes, the greatest medieval commentator on Aristotle but also a major scholar of Islam. The collection situates him in his historical context by emphasizing the way that he responded to the political situation of twelfth-century Islamic Spain and the provocations of Islamic theology. It also sheds light on the interconnections between aspects of his work that are usually studied separately, such as his treatises on logic and his legal writings. Advanced students and scholars will find authoritative and insightful treatments of Averroes' philosophy, tackled from multiple perspectives and written in a clear and accessible way that will appeal to those encountering his work for the first time as well as to anyone looking for new critical approaches to Averroes and his thinking.

Edited by: Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen), Matteo Di Giovanni (Providence College, Rhode Island)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 150mm, Width: 230mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781107535404
ISBN 10: 1107535409
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 20 August 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Peter Adamson and Matteo Di Giovanni; 1. Averroes philosopher of Islam Matteo Di Giovanni; 2. Dogmatics, theology, and philosophy in Averroes Mokdad Arfa-Mensia; 3. Averroes on juridical reasoning Ziad Bou Akl; 4. Averroes' corrective philosophy of law Feriel Bouhafa; 5. Averroes' logic Paul Thom; 6. Constructing Averroes' epistemology Deborah L. Black; 7. Averroes on knowing essences David Wirmer; 8. Averroes and the 'internal senses' Rotraud Hansberger; 9. Averroes on medicine Joël Chandelier; 10. Averroes' natural philosophy as science of nature Cristina Cerami; 11. Averroes on divine causation Peter Adamson; 12. Averroes' goals in the Paraphrase (Middle Commentary) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Frédérique Woerther.

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has published numerous volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge, 2004) and Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays (Cambridge, 2013). Matteo Di Giovanni is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, Rhode Island. Among his publications are various studies on Andalusian philosophy and the Syro-Arabic tradition of Greek Aristotelianism, and a monograph on Averroes entitled Averroè (2017).