Volume 2 Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Volume 2 Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World

Edited by: Nadja Germann and Mostafa Najafi

Part of the multi-volume work Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110552409

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What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these have been at the center of lively debate ever since the rise of scholarly activities in the Islamic world during the 8th/9th century. However, in contrast to contemporary philosophy, they were not tackled by scholars adhering to only one specific discipline. Rather, they were addressed across multiple fields and domains, no less by linguists, legal theorists, and theologians than by Aristotelian philosophers.

In response to the different challenges faced by these disciplines, highly sophisticated and more specialized areas emerged, comparable to what nowadays would be referred to as semantics, pragmatics, and hermeneutics, to name but a few – fields of research that are pursued to this day and still flourish in some of the traditional schools. Philosophy of language, thus, has been a major theme throughout Islamic intellectual culture in general; a theme which, probably due to its trans-disciplinary nature, has largely been neglected by modern research.

This book brings together for the first time experts from the various fields involved, in order to explore the riches of this tradition and make them accessible to a broader public interested both in philosophy and the history of ideas more generally.

Author / Editor information

Nadja Germann and Mostafa Najafi, University of Freiburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Cognisable Content: The Work of the Maʿnā in Early Muʿtazilī Theory David Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Voie Diffuse and Reconstruction: The De Audibilibus and Sībawayhi’s Account of Voicing Jonathan Owens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
The Causes of Grammar: Ibn Jinnī on the Nature of Language Nadja Germann and Noel A. Rivera Calero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Notes around Ambiguity: Ibn Sīnā’s Logic, ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī’s Poetics, Rāghib’s Two-Meanings-at-One-Time, and the Figures of Ibhām, Istikhdām, and Tawriya Alexander Key Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Reception of Pointers 1.6 in Thirteenth- Century Logic: On the Expression’s Signification of Meaning Tony Street Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Reason and Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and the Ashʿarī Tradition Bilal Ibrahim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Informative and Performative Theories of Divine Speech in Classical Islamic Legal Theory David R. Vishanoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Understanding Divine Intention: “Conversational Maxims” and the Legal Theory of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1067) Robert Gleave Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
After Adam: Ibn ʿAqīl on Language Origin, Change, and Expansion Feriel Bouhafa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Reclassification of Linguistic Meaning: An Integrated Approach Mohamed Mohamed Yunis Ali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Index of Subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those intererested in philosophy of language, Islamic intellectual history, linguistics, theology, philosophy
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 343
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 13
Keywords: Philosophy of language; semantics; pragmatics; Islam

eBook

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110552409

Hardcover

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110552171