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INTRODUZIONE ALLA FILOSOFIA ISLAMICA

(INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY)

by MASSIMO CAMPANINI

(Department of Philosophy [Chair of Medieval Philosophy] - State University of Milano - Italy)

CONTENTS

FIRST PART: FINDING A PARADIGM.

CHAPTER ONE - The History (a short survery of the historical development of Islamic Philosophy from the Mu'tazilites to Ibn Khaldun).

CHAPTER TWO - What is Islamic philosophy? (a critical analysis of the meaning of philosophy in the Arab and Islamic world during the so called Middle Ages).

CHAPTER THREE - The ways of philosophy (a critical analysis of the main overall keys of interpretation of Islamic philosophy).

SECOND PART: THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY.

CHAPTER ONE - The Unicity of God (a survey of the Islamic theories of tawhid from the Mu'tazilites' negative theology to the neoplatonic God of al-Farabi and Ibn Sina to al- Ghazali's Light of the Lights).

CHAPTER TWO - The structure of universe (the cosmic hierarchical structure in Islamic philosophy).

CHAPTER THREE - The human intellect (theories of Intellect from al-Kindi to Ibn Rushd with special emphasis on the conjunction).

CHAPTER FOUR - Freedom and necessity in God's action (a theoretical insight in the debate between al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd in Tahafut al-falasifa and Tahafut al-tahafut).

CHAPTER FIVE - Ethics and politics (with emphasis on God's justice and on the ideal and perfect state).

INDEX OF NAMES 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PUBLISHERS: Editori Laterza Via di Villa Sacchetti, 17 00197 ROMA (Italy) mail: laterza@laterza.it

AUTHOR'S ADDRESS 

Massimo Campanini 

Via Marochetti 21 20139 

MILANO (Italy) 

e-mail: massimo.campanini@unimi.it or massimo.campanini@tiscali.it 

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