Islamisk & arabisk filosofi

Åttahundra år innan de första europeiska vetenskapsakademierna var påtänkta blomstrade Visdomens hus i de muslimska kalifernas Bagdad. Där verkade Mellanösterns största snillen inom geografi, optik, historia, filosofi, medicin, kemi, astronomi och...

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"e;Profeten vill saga en sak: 'Du ar storre an du sjalv vet, och det ar gott'."e;Kahlil Gibran om ProfetenProfeten ar en vacker hyllning till livet. Huvudpersonen ar en profet som har vistats i frammande land i tolv ar och nu gor sig bered...

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The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the fo...

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Filosofi i den islamiska världen är tredje delen i Peter Adamsons bokserie En filosofihistoria utan luckor , baserad på hans populära podcast med samma namn. Här täcks filosofin på det islamiska området från äldsta tider fram till 2000-talet, med ...

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A comprehensive overview of the most misunderstood movement in modern Islam: Salafism. The Salafi movement invokes fear and dread in outsiders who treat Salafism as synonymous with religious extremism. For Salafis themselves, it's a jealously guar...

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Al-Isharat wal-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happine...

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`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to...

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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 r...

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Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive intro...

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Ibn Sina - Avicenna in Latin - (980-1037) played a considerable role in the development of both eastern and western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics and theology and even me...

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In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy. Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the firs...

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`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to...

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Antikens grekiska filosofer var varken européer eller kristna. Deras arv har inte heller bara förvaltats i Väst. Även inom den muslimska världen har den antika filosofin varit viktig. De traditioner som idag alltför ofta framställs som varandras m...

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Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his Incoherence of the Philosophers, Moderation in Belief is his most profound work of philosoph...

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The time has come to reveal more of Rumi than the inaccurate portrayal of a new age guru. With careful selections from his work and accompanying commentaries this book will bring readers closer to his poetry's true, traditional meaning. -- "Everyo...

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We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what i...

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The 'naming' of God is one of the essential pillars of the monotheistic traditions, and every Name of God has its own 'presence'. According to 'the greatest spiritual master' Ibn ?Arab? (1165-1240), the 99 Names of God in Islamic devotional practi...

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The Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about ...

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Al-Akhdari handbok i logik är en översättning av hans erkända prosodi på 144 rader med tillhörande förklaring. Verket introducerar den grundläggande terminologi och funktion som logikerna använder för att tänka och resonera på ett sammanhängande o...

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While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Maimonides...

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Attempts to show the religious dimension in many special spheres of man's cultural activity.

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For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirtee...

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Reason and Religious Belief, now in its fifth edition, explores perennial questions in the philosophy of religion. Drawing from the best in both classical and contemporary discussions, the authors examine religious experience, faith and reason, th...

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This is a much needed, concise survey of Arab nationalism both as an historical movement and a doctrine. The author identifies the particular characteristics and development of Arab nationalism and provides a wide-ranging history.

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Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has t...

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The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subj...

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