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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450056703321

Autore

Netton Ian Richard

Titolo

Al-Farabi and his school / / Ian Richard Netton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-95981-8

1-280-21690-5

9786610216901

0-203-98020-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Collana

Arabic thought and culture

Disciplina

181/.6

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-120) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; AL-FĀRĀBĪ AND HIS SCHOOL; Copyright; CONTENTS; FIGURES; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 THE AGE OF FĀRĀBISM; The Second Master and His Students; Al-Fārābī (c. AD 870-950); Yahyā b. 'Adī (AD 893/4-974); Abū Sulaymān al-Sijistānī (c. AD 913/4-AD 987/8); Abū 'l-Hasan Muhammad b. Yusuf al-'Āmirī (d. AD 992); Abū  Hayyan al-Tawhīdī (c. AD 922-32 to c. AD 1023); Court culture, conviviality and Kalām; 2 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SUBSTRATE OF FĀRĀBISM (i): THE PARADIGM OF THE SECOND MASTER; The Quest for knowledge; Al-Fārābī and knowledge

3 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SUBSTRATE OF FĀRĀBISM (ii): IN THE STEPS OF THEIR MASTERThe Elements of Yahyā b. 'Adī's Epistemology; Al-Sijistānī and Knowledge; Al-'Āmirī and knowledge; Al-Tawhīdī and knowledge; 4 CONCLUSION; 5 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Examines one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in the development of medieval Islam, from the late 9th to the early 11th century, through the thought of five of its principal thinkers, prime among them al-Farabi. This great Islamic philosopher, called 'the Second Master' after Aristotle, produced a recognizable school of thought in which others pursued and developed some of his own



intellectual preoccupations. Their thought is treated with particular reference to the most basic questions which can be asked in the theory of knowledge or epistemology. The book thus fills a lacuna in the l