The Philosophy Of The Kalam
Download The Philosophy Of The Kalam PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Philosophy Of The Kalam book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
The Philosophy of the Kalam
Author: Harry Austryn Wolfson
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 1976
Wolfson describes the body of doctrine known as the Kalam. Kalam, an Arabic term meaning "speech" and hence "discussion," was applied to early attempts in Islam to adduce philosophic proofs for religious beliefs. It later came to designate a system of religious philosophy which reached its highest point in the eleventh century.
Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy
In his monumental Philosophy of the Kalam the late Harry Wolfson--truly the most accomplished historian of philosophy in our century--examined the early medieval system of Islamic philosophy. He studies its repercussions in Jewish thought in this companion book--an indispensable work for all students of Jewish and Islamic traditions. Wolfson believed that ideas are contagious, but that for beliefs to catch on from one tradition to another the recipients must be predisposed, susceptible. Thus he is concerned here not so much with the influence of Islamic ideas as with Jewish elaboration, adaptation, qualification, and criticism of them. To this end he examines passages reflecting Kalam views by a wide variety of Jewish thinkers, including Isaac Israeli, Judah Halevi, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Maimonides. As always in Wolfson's work, two aspects are apparent: the special dimensions of Jewish thought as well as its relation to other traditions. And as always his prose is both graceful and precise.
The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
This book looks at one of today's greatest thinkers and his influential writings on religion, science, history, and Persian mysticism. The text includes 33 critical essays by contemporary scholars and Nasr's responses to each of them.