Abdal Hakim Murad - The Cambridge Companion to Islamic Theology

16 Introduction
24. Yahya Michot, ‘‘La pandémie avicennienne au VIe/XIIe siècle’’, Arabica
40 (1993), pp. 288–344.
25. Dimitri Gutas, ‘‘The heritage of Avicenna: the golden age of Arabic
philosophy, 1000–c. 1350’’, in Jules Janssens and Daniël De Smet (eds.),
Avicenna and His Heritage (Leuven, 2002), pp. 81–97.
26. Wisnovsky, Avicenna’s metaphysics, pp.16, 145–80. For a challenge to
this view see the review by Allan Bäck in Ars Disputandi, , 5 (2005).
27. Wisnovsky, Avicenna’s Metaphysics, p.15.
28. Robert Wisnovsky, ‘‘One aspect of the Avicennian turn in Sunnı
theology’’, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 14 (2004), p. 65.
29. Mecdı Meh med Efendi, H ada’iq al-Şaqa’iq (Istanbul, 1269 ah), p. 165.
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However, after the fifteenth century, references to Ottoman ulema
reading independent falsafa works are very unusual.
30. Daniel Tanguay, Leo Strauss: une biographie intellectuelle (Paris, 2003),
pp. 88–9.
31. Gutas, ‘‘The heritage of Avicenna’’, p. 20 (emphasis in original).
32. Sa‘d al-Dın al-Taftazanı, in Mus lih al-Dın Mus t afa al-Qast allanı (Molla
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Kestelli), H ashiyat al-Kestellı ‘ala Sharh al-‘aqa’id (Istanbul, 1326 ah),
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p. 17.
33. Shihadeh, ‘‘From al-Ghazalı to al-Razı’’, p. 175: falsafa and kalam ‘‘came
to be as if one and the same discipline’’.
34. Taneli Kukkonen, ‘‘Possible worlds in the Tahafut al-Falasifa:
al-Ghazalı on creation and contingency’’, Journal of the History of
Philosophy 38 (2000), p. 484.
35. Theideathatkalam advocated an arbitrary God whose possible actions
arenotboundbylogic,asintheZ ahirite theology of Ibn H azm, is
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dismissed by Kukkonen, ibid., p. 493, in connection with Ghazalı’s
thought.
36. Jules Janssens, ‘‘Al-Ghazzalı’s Tahafut: is it really a rejection of
Avicenna’s philosophy?’’, Journal of Islamic Studies 12 (2001), pp. 1–17.
37. Michael E. Marmura, ‘‘Ghazâlî and Demonstrative Science’’, Journal of
the History of Philosophy 3 (1965), pp. 183–204.
38. Tony Street, ‘‘Arabic logic’’, in Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods (eds.),
Handbook of the History of Logic, i (Amsterdam, etc., 2004), p. 527.
39. Khaled El-Rouayheb, ‘‘Sunni Muslim scholars on the status of logic,
1500–1800’’, in Islamic Law and Society 11 (2004), pp. 213–32.
40. Shihadeh, ‘‘From al-Ghazalı to al-Razı’’, p. 147.
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