Publisher's Synopsis
CONTENTS
- Preface
- Galen and al-Razi on time / Peter Adamson
- The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazali: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti
- Some Syriac pseudo-platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock
- Al-Jaḥiẓ on Aṣḥab al-Jahalat and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone
- Jawhar and Dhat in some medieval Arabic philosophers (or, on 'Dhis and Dhat') / Julian Faultless
- Le scepticisme et sa réfutation selon al-Malaḥimi / Charles Genequand
- Mediating the medium: the Arabic Plotinus on vision / Rotraud Hansberger
- Shi'i views of the death of the Prophet Muḥammad / Etan Kohlberg
- Naṣir al-Din al-Ṭusi's exposition of mayl / Y. Tzvi Langermann
- ?Isa ibn ?Umayr's Ibaḍi theology and Donatist Christian thought / Wilferd Madelung
- The absurdaties of infinite time: Shahrastani's critique of Ibn Sina and Ṭusi's defence / Goby Mayer
- The Islamic literature on encounters between Muslim renunciants and Christiam monks / Christopher Melchert
- The development of translation techniques from Greek into Syriac and Arabic: the case of Galen's On the faculties and powers of simple drugs, book six / Peter E. Pormann
- The working files of Rhazes: are the Jami? and the Ḥawi identical? / Emilie Savage-Smith
- Waiting for Philoponus / Richard Sorabji
- [Greek title] / Manfred Ullman
- On coincidence: the twenty-seventh and twenty-eight nights of al-Tawḥidi's al-Imta? wa-l-mu'anasa. An annotated translation / Geert Jan van Gelder
- Fragments of the hitherto lost Arabic translations of Galen's On my own opinions in the philosophy reader MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Oriental Collections, Marsh 539 / Elvira Wakelnig
- A list of publications of Fritz Zimmermann
- Index of proper names.
