Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Syriac Aristotelian Tradition and the Syro-Arabic Baghdad Philosophers

Chapter 2 Palestinian Origenism and the Early History of the Maronites: In Search of the Origins of the Arabic Theology of Aristotle

Chapter 3 Some Observations about the Transmission of Popular Philosophy in Egyptian Monasteries after the Islamic Conquest

Chapter 4 The Concept of ʿaql in Early Arabic Christian Theology: A Case for the Early Interaction between Philosophy and kalām

Chapter 5 “Active Nature” and Other Striking Features of Abū Bishr Mattā ibn Yūnus’s Cosmology as Reconstructed from His Commentaryon Aristotle’s Physics

Chapter 6 Between Hellenism, Islam, and Christianity: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and His Controversies with Contemporary Muʿtazilite Theologians as Reported by the Ashʿarite Theologian and Philosopher Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

Chapter 7 Theology as a Rational Science: Aristotelian Philosophy, the Christian Trinity and Islamic Monotheism in the Thought of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī

Chapter 8 What Does Tawḥīd Mean? Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī’s Treatise on the Affirmation of the Unity of God between Philosophy and Theology

Chapter 9 Movement as “Discrete”: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī as a Source for the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ?

Chapter 10 A Newly Discovered Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī Treatise against Atomism

Chapter 11 Aristotelian Cosmology and Causality in Classical Arabic Philosophy and Its Greek Background

Appendix

Index of Names and Places

Index of Subjects