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A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment
In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Lowney's book takes us back to a medieval Iberia that prefigured the Renaissance, offering a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a…
Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī: Intellectual Missionary
Paul E. Walker looks at this seminally important Ismaili missionary from the tenth century (Islamic fourth century) from a fresh perspective. Al-Sijistani and his thought are presented in this book much as he might have done himself if he had written…
Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect
A study of problems revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna (980-1037), and Averroes (1126-1198), this book pays particular attention to the way in which these philosophers addressed the tangle of…
