Medieval Arabic Thought: Essays in Honour of Fritz Zimmermann

CONTENTS

• Preface
• Galen and al-Rāzī on time / Peter Adamson
• The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazālī: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti
• Some Syriac pseudo-platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock
• Al-Jāḥiẓ on Aṣḥāb al-Jahālāt and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone
• Jawhar and Dhāt in some medieval Arabic philosophers (or, on ‘Dhis and Dhat’) / Julian Faultless
• Le scepticisme et sa réfutation selon al-Malāḥimī / Charles Genequand
• Mediating the medium: the Arabic Plotinus on vision / Rotraud Hansberger
• Shīʹī views of the death of the Prophet Muḥammad / Etan Kohlberg
• Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s exposition of mayl / Y. Tzvi Langermann
• ʻĪsā ibn ʻUmayr’s Ibāḍī theology and Donatist Christian thought / Wilferd Madelung
• The absurdaties of infinite time: Shahrastānī’s critique of Ibn Sīnā and Ṭūsī’s defence / Goby Mayer
• The Islamic literature on encounters between Muslim renunciants and Christiam monks / Christopher Melchert
• The development of translation techniques from Greek into Syriac and Arabic: the case of Galen’s On the faculties and powers of simple drugs, book six / Peter E. Pormann
• The working files of Rhazes: are the Jāmiʻ and the Ḥāwī identical? / Emilie Savage-Smith
• Waiting for Philoponus / Richard Sorabji
• [Greek title] / Manfred Ullman
• On coincidence: the twenty-seventh and twenty-eight nights of al-Tawḥīdī’s al-Imtāʻ wa-l-muʼānasa. An annotated translation / Geert Jan van Gelder
• Fragments of the hitherto lost Arabic translations of Galen’s On my own opinions in the philosophy reader MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Oriental Collections, Marsh 539 / Elvira Wakelnig
• A list of publications of Fritz Zimmermann
• Index of proper names.