In the Age of Al-Fārābī: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth-tenth CenturyPeter Adamson The papers in this volume were given at a conference held at the Warburg Institute in 2006 to consider the philosophy of al-Farabi alongside other intellectual developments of his time together with a wide range of other figures and traditions from the period. The volume initially focuses on the group of Peripatetics working in Baghdad with al-Farabi's teacher Abu Bishr Matta and his student Yahya ibn 'Adi who worked in the Aristotelian tradition. Other papers look at thinkers working in the Neoplatonic tradition transmitted by al-Kindi's circle, such as al-'Amiri, Ibn Farighun and al-Isfizari. The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity provide compelling evidence of the fusion of Neoplatonism and Greek science with contemporary Islamic religious thought. Neoplatonic ideas also appear in the symbology of Isma'ili thought at this time |
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Ulrich Rudolph Reflections on alFarabis Mabădi ārā ahl almadina alfăḍila | 1 |
Deborah L Black AlFārābi on Menos Paradox | 15 |
Elias Giannakis Anaxagoras in the Baghdad Physics | 35 |
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