• Preface to the English Edition
• Preface to the German Edition

Introduction

• 1. Stages of the History of Research
• 2. Principles of Presentation
• 3. Characteristics of the First Volume: Philosophy from the 8th to the 10th Century
• 4. Secondary Literature

1. The Late Ancient Background

• 1. Principal Features of Late Ancient Philosophy
• 2. The School of Athens
• 3. The School of Alexandria
• 4. Philosophy and the Sciences
• 5. Channels of Transmission
• 6. Secondary Literature

2. The Syriac Tradition in the Early Islamic Era

• 1. Primary Sources
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Jacobite Authors
• 4. Nestorian Authors
• 5. A Maronite Author: Theophilus of Edessa
• 6. Secondary Literature

3. The Rebirth of Philosophy and the Translations into Arabic

• 1. Primary Sources
• 2. The Historical Causes of the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement
• 3. Method, Phases, and Significance of the Translations
• 4. The Beginnings of Philosophical Literature in Arabic and the Rebirth of Philosophy
• 5. Greek Philosophical Texts in Arabic Translation
• 6. Secondary Literature

4. Abū Yūsuf al-Kindī

• 1. Primary Sources
• 2. Life and Influence
• 3. Translations Available in al-Kindī’s Time
• 4. Works
• 5. Doctrine
• 6. Secondary Literature

5. The Beginnings of Islamic Philosophy in the Tradition of al-Kindī

• 1. Al-Kindī’s School: From Baghdad to Transoxania
• 2. Neoplatonic Developments
• 3. The Integration of Philosophical Traditions in Islamic Society in the 4th/10th Century: al-Tawḥīdī and al-Siǧistānī
• 4. Ancient Ethical Traditions for Islamic Society: Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh
• 5. Bridging the Gap between the Kindian Tradition and the Baghdad School: Ibn Hindū
• 6. Secondary Literature

6. Abū Bakr al-Rāzī

• 1. Primary Sources
• 2. Translations Available in al-Rāzī’s Time
• 3. Life
• 4. Works
• 5. Doctrine
• 6. Secondary Literature

7. The Baghdad Aristotelians

• 1. The Arabic Aristotle and the Transmission of Aristotelian Philosophy in Baghdad: Abū Bišr Mattā b. Yūnus
• 2. Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAdī
• 3. ʿĪsā Ibn Zurʿa
• 4. Ibn al-Ḫammār
• 5. Ibn al-Samḥ
• 6. Abū l-Faraǧ Ibn al-Ṭayyib
• 7. Secondary Literature

8. Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī

• 1. Primary Sources
• 2. Life and Influence
• 3. Works
• 4. Doctrine
• 5. Secondary Literature

9. The Dissemination of Philosophical Thought

• 1. Popular Ethics, Practical Politics
• 2. Scholars as Transmitters of Philosophical Thought
• 3. Philosophy and Natural Science
• 4. The Religious Application of Philosophical Ideas
• 5. Secondary Literature

Index of Arabic Words

This index lists Arabic words found in the Index of Subjects, where page numbers refer the reader to passages where the Arabic terms are mentioned.

Index of Arabic Words

Index of Subjects

Index terms are grouped together based on their first letter: A - Z. Select the first letter of the index term:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Index of Names

Index terms are grouped together based on their first letter: A - Z. Select the first letter of the index term:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z