Classical Arabic philosophy: an anthology of sources

Introduction

Falsafa and the arabic translation movement

The intellectual world of the ancient and medieval mediterranean

The physical theory and cosmology of islamic speculative theology (kalām)

Al-Kindī: The explanation of the proximate efficient cause for generation and corruption

On the intellect

On divine unity and the finitude of the world's body

The one true and complete agent and the incomplete metaphorical "agent"

On the means of dispelling sorrows

Ar-Rāzī: The philosopher's way of life

On the five eternals

Selections from doubts against Galen

Al-Fārābī

The eisagōgē; the introduction

Selections from Book of demonstration

On the intellect

The aims of Aristotle's Metaphysics

The principles of existing things

Directing attention to the way to happiness. Baghdad peripatetics: Abū Bishr Mattá: selections from Abū Bishr Mattá's Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, ii 7/9

Yaḥyá ibn ʻĀdī: Selection from establishing the nature of the possible

Abū Sulaymān as-Sijistānī: selection from on the proper perfection of the human species

Ibn Sīnān

The Cure, "Book of demonstration," i.9, On induction and methodic experience and what makes it necessary

The Cure, "Book of demonstration," iii.5

The Cure, "Physics," i.2, enumerating the principles of physics by postulate and thesis

Selections on atomism from the Cure, "Physics"

Selections on "inclination" (mayl) and projectile motion

Selections on psychology from the cure, "the soul"

The Salvation, "Metaphysics," i.12

The Salvation, "Metaphysics," ii.1/5

The Salvation, "Metaphysics," ii.12/13

The Salvation, "Metaphysics," ii.18/19

The Cure, "Metaphysics," iv.2, on governance

Al-Ghazālī: Concerning that on which true demonstration is based

The Incoherence of the philosophers, "the first discussion," on refuting their claim of the world's eternity

On power

Ibn Bajjá: Selection from commentary on Aristotle's "Physics"

Conjunction of the intellect with man

Ibn Ṭufayl: Selections from Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān

Ibn Rushd: Selections from the Incoherence of the Incoherence, "first discussion"

The decisive treatise

Commentary on Metaphysics, zeta 9

Selections from the long commentary on the soul

Commentary on Metaphysics, delta 7

As-Suhrawardī: Selections from the philosophy of illumination

Glossary / Index

Notes

Bibliography.