Translation of: Histoire de la philosophie islamique.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-407) and index.
Language
Translation of: Histoire de la philosophie islamique.
Contents
Transcription -- Foreword -- Pt. 1 From the Beginning Down to the Death of Averroes (595/1198) -- I The Sources of Philosophical Meditation in Islam (starting p. 1) -- 1 Spiritual exegesis of the Quran (starting p. 1) -- 2 The translations (starting p. 14) -- II Shiism and Prophetic Philosophy (starting p. 23) -- Preliminary observations (starting p. 23) -- A Twelver Shiism (starting p. 31) -- B Ismailism (starting p. 74) -- III The Sunni Kalam (starting p. 105) -- A The Mutazilites (starting p. 105) -- B Abu al-Hasan al-Ashari (starting p. 112) -- C Asharism (starting p. 117) -- IV Philosophy and the Natural Sciences (starting p. 125) -- V The Hellenizing Philosophers (starting p. 153) -- Foreword (starting p. 153) -- VI Sufism (starting p. 187) -- VII Al-Suhrawardi and the Philosophy of Light (starting p. 205) -- VIII In Andalusia (starting p. 221) -- Transition (starting p. 249) -- Pt. 2 From the Death of Averroes to the Present Day -- I Sunni Thought (starting p. 263) -- A The Philosophers (starting p. 263) -- B The Theologians of the kalam (starting p. 267) -- C The Adversaries of the Philosophers (starting p. 273) -- D The Encyclopaedists (starting p. 275) -- II The Metaphysics of Sufism (starting p. 283) -- III Shiite Thought (starting p. 319) -- Perspective (starting p. 365) -- Elements of a Bibliography (starting p. 367) -- List of Abbreviations (starting p. 409) -- Index (starting p. 413)