From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond Volume 3: From God’s Wisdom to Science. A. Islamic Theology and Sufism B. History of Science

688 Pages·2021·7.438 MB·English

by  Hans Daiber, Helga Daiber

FromtheGreekstotheArabsandBeyond
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From the Greeks
to the Arabs and Beyond
Volume3
FromGod’sWisdomtoScience
A.IslamicTheologyandSufism
B.Historyof Science
By
HansDaiber
Incollaborationwith
HelgaDaiber
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Contents
Abbreviations xi
RulesofTransliteration xiv
part a
IslamicTheologyandSufism
1 GottesliebeundmenschlicheGrößeimfrühenIslam
DasBeispielvonRābiʿaal-ʿAdawiyya(95/714oder98/717–185/801) 3
2 SharingReligiousExperienceasaProbleminEarlyIslamic
Mysticism 25
3 LiterarischerProzesszwischenFiktionundWirklichkeit
EinBeispielausderklassisch-arabischenErzählliteratur 36
4 RebelliongegenGott
FormenatheistischenDenkensimfrühenIslam 79
5 Šaqāwa 107
6 MuʿammarIbnʿAbbādas-Sulamī 109
7 MuḥammadIbnAṣbaġ 112
8 Murdār,AbūMūsāʿĪsāIbnṢubayḥal- 114
9 ZurErstausgabevonMāturīdī,Kitābat-Tawḥīd 118
10 DieStellungdesTheologenAbūl-Layṯas-SamarqandīinderSchule
desMāturīdī–FollowedbytheTurkishversionIlahiyatçıAbūl-Layṯ
as-Samarqandī’ninMāturīdīOkulu’ndakiYeri 136
11 TheCreed(ʿAqīda)oftheHanbaliteIbnQudāmaal-Maqdisī
ANewlyDiscoveredText 159
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12 TheQurʾānasa“Shibboleth”ofVaryingConceptionsoftheGodhead
A6th/12th-CenturyHanbalite-AshʿariteDiscussionandItsTheological
SequelintheProtocolofIbnQudāmaal-Maqdisī 189
13 DieKreuzzügeimLichteislamischerTheologie
TheologischeInterpretamentebeiAbūŠāma(gest.665/1268) 252
14 Maqālafīr-raddʿalāl-Muǧbira(MSNaǧaf)AttributedtoʿAbd
al-Ǧabbāral-Hamaḏānī 263
15 PlagueandConsolationinaNewlyDiscoveredTextbyZakariyāʾ
al-Anṣārī(d.926/1520) 289
Reviews
16 JosefvanEss,DieErkenntnislehredesʿAḍudaddīnal-Īcī(1966) 393
17 JosefvanEss,DasKitāban-NakṯdesNaẓẓāmundseineRezeptionim
Kitābal-FutyādesǦāḥiẓ(1972) 397
18 TilmanNagel,FrüheIsmailiyaundFatimidenimLichtederRisālat
Iftitāḥad-daʿwa(1972) 405
19 MustafaGhaleb(ed.),DieismailitischeTheologiedesIbrāhīmIbn
al-Ḥusainal-Ḥāmidī(1971) 410
20 JamesA.Bellamy(ed.),IbnAbīd-Dunyā,TheNobleQualitiesof
Character(1973) 414
21 BerndRadtke,Al-Ḥakīmat-Tirmiḏī(1980) 416
22 MiguelAsinPalacios,TheMysticalPhilosophyofIbnMasarraand
HisFollowers(1978) 418
23 LouisPouzet,Uneherméneutiquedelatraditionislamique.Le
commentairedesArbaʿūnAl-NawawīyadeMuḥyīAl-DīnYaḥyā
Al-Nawawī(m.676/1277)(1982) 421
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24 KhalilSamir(ed.)andPaulNwyia(transl.),Unecorrespondence
islamo-chrétienneentreibnal-Munaǧǧim,ḤunaynibnIsḥāqetQusṭā
ibnLūqā(1981) 423
25 MichaelCook,EarlyMuslimDogma(1981) 425
26 RichardMacdonoughFrank,BeingsandTheirAttributes
(1978) 428
27 HazratInayatKhan,DasLiedinallenDingen.Sufi-Erzählungen
undGleichnissevomGlückderHarmonie(1985) 430
28 GeorgesVajda(ed.,transl.),Al-Kitābal-MuḥtawīdeYūsufal-Baṣīr
(1985) 432
29 EricLinnOrmsby,TheodicyinIslamicThought(1984) 434
30 IsmailHakkiBursevi’sTranslationofandCommentaryonFususAl-
HikambyMuhyiddinIbnʿArabi.RenderedintoEnglishbyBulent
Rauf(1986) 436
31 WilferdMadelung(ed.),DieStreitschrift(Kitāban-Naǧāt)des
ZaiditenimamsAḥmadan-Nāṣirwiderdieibaditische
Prädestinationslehre(1985) 438
32 DanielGimaret,LesnomsdivinsenIslam(1988) 439
33 ʿA.ʿA.Elschazli(transl.),AbūḤāmidMuḥammadal-Ghazālī,Der
ErretterausdemIrrtum(1988).–ʿA.ʿA.Elschazli(transl.),Abū
ḤāmidMuḥammadal-Ghazālī,DieNischederLichter(1987) 440
34 BoHolmberg(ed.),ATreatiseontheUnityandTrinityofGodby
IsraelofKashkar(d.872)(1989) 442
35 DanielGimaret,Ladoctrined’al-Ashʿarī(1990) 444
36 TilmanNagel,GeschichtederislamischenTheologie(1994) 446
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part b
HistoryofScience
1 DieTechnikimIslam 451
2 ةينقتلاوملعلابهتقالعومالسإلا
ةيخيراتلاةقيقحلاو،ملعلاخيراتلوحرصاعملالدجلايفةرظن 466
3 TheWayfromGod’sWisdomtoScienceinIslam
ModernDiscussionsandHistoricalBackground 476
4 ErkenntnistheoretischeGrundlagenderWetterprognosebeiden
Arabern
DasBeispielvonKindī,dem“PhilosophenderAraber”(3./9.Jh.) 493
5 MeteorologyamongtheArabs 508
6 QusṭāIbnLūqā(3./9.Jh.)überdieEinteilungder
Wissenschaften 520
7 FārābīsAbhandlungüberdasVakuum
QuellenundStellunginderislamischenWissenschaftsgeschichte 557
8 TheContributionofIslamtoScienceinthe4th/10thCentury
TheCaseofAbūl-FaḍlIbnal-ʿAmīd 569
9 ديمعلانبالضفلاوبأيهيوبلاريزولا
يداليملارشاعلانرقلانميشنفادودرانويل 575
10 Abūl-FaraǧIbnaṭ-ṬayyibonPlants
AnInquiryintoHisSources 582
11 DieFaḍāʾil-LiteraturalsQuellederWissenschaftsgeschichte
DasBeispieldesägyptischenHistorikersIbnZūlāq(4./10.Jh.) 596
12 ScienceConnectingScholarsandCulturesinḪwārazm
TheCaseofḪwārazmšāhMaʾmūnIbnMaʾmūn(regn.
399/1009–407/1017) 627
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13 Aristotle’sMeteorologyin18th-CenturyEgypt
Damanhūrī(1100/1689or1690–1192/1778),ʿAynal-ḥayātfīʿilmistinbāṭ
al-miyāh 637
Reviews
14 AhmadY.Al-Hassan,GhadaKarmi&NizarNamnum(eds.),
ProceedingsoftheFirstInternationalSymposiumfortheHistoryof
ArabicScience(April5–12,1976).Vol.II:PapersinEuropean
Languages(1978) 661
15 AntonM.Heinen,IslamicCosmology.AStudyofas-Suyūṭī’sal-
Hayʾaas-sanīyafīl-hayʾaas-sunnīya,withcriticaledition,translation,
andcommentary(1982) 665
16 JosephNeedham,ScienceandCivilisationinChina.Vol.5:
ChemistryandChemicalTechnology.PartIV(1980) 667
17 PaulKraus, JābirIbnḤayyān(1986) 669
18 RobertG.Morrison,IslamandScience.TheIntellectualCareerof
Niẓāmal-Dīnal-Nīsābūrī(2007) 671
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