Simple Index of Course Webpages
For Thomistic bibliographies, see the bottom of this page.
For a bibliography of professional bibliographies, see this link: AAIWG Bibliography of Bibliographies.
Resources of particular interest in this course, in addition to those mentioned in the Course Detailed Syllabus or Detailed Weekly Assignments 2021:
CAP: Classical Arabic Philosophy: an Anthology of Sources, J. McGinnis & D. Reisman, eds. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007) The MU library has four (4) copies of this. Click HERE.
CCA = The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, Kretzmann and Stump, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Available online via Marqcat.
CCAP: Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, P. Adamson & R. Taylor, eds. (Cambridge: CUP. 2005). Available online via Marqcat.
CHMP = The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, R. Pasnau, ed. (New York & Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010) Available online via Marqcat.
EMP = Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy 500 -1500, H. Lagerlund, ed. (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2011) Available online via Marqcat.
OHA= Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, Davies & Stump, eds. Oxford; New York, OUP 2012. Available online on Marqcat.
OHIP = Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, eds. Khaled El-Rouayheb & Sabine Schmidtke (Oxford: OUP, 2017). Available online on Marqcat.
OHMP = Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy, John Marenbon, ed. (Oxford: OUP, 2012) Available online on Marqcat.
PIW: Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, vol. 3 (OUP 2016), is a light but valuable and entertaining introduction to this field. It is available online via the Marquette University Library at https://libus.csd.mu.edu/record=b3518036~S1.
PIWH: Philosophy in the Islamic World. Handbook of Oriental Studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section One, The Near and Middle East. Vol. 115/1. Ulrich Rudolph, Rotraud Hansburger, and Peter Adamson, eds. English tr. by Rautraud Hansburger. Available in the Marquette University Library.
RCIP: Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, R. Taylor & L. López-Farjeat, eds. (Routledge, 2015). Available online via Marqcat.
SEP: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online http://plato.stanford.edu)
IEP Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Re. Aquinas, see https://iep.utm.edu/thomas-aquinas-political-theology/.
Some other works of value for our studies are the following all of which are available at the MU library.
Herbert A. Davidson, Proofs for Eternity, Creation and The Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Leo J. Elders, Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors. The Philosophers and the Church Fathers in His Works. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
Dimitri Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 1988; 2014, second edition.
Pasquale Porro, Thomas Aquinas: a historical and philosophical profile. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. This is available online or for download at the Marquette Library.
J.-P. Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, v. 1, The Person and His Work. Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 1996.
James A. Weisheipl, Thomas D’Aquino. Washington, D.C.: CUA Press 1974.
For a list of very recent books on medieval philosophy, see the lists for 2018 & 2019 provided by Robert Pasnau at https://inmediasphil.wordpress.com/category/publications/ and https://inmediasphil.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/2018-books/
For a particularly insightful recent article providing an overview of sources motivating the development of the thought of Aquinas, see Wayne Hankey, “The Concord of Aristotle, Proclus, the Liber de Causis and Blessed Dionysius in Thomas Aquinas, Student of Albertus Magnus,” Dionysius 34 (2016). This is now available for download via Marqcat.
I also recommend Hankey’s article made available on Academia.edu, “Dionysius in Albertus Magnus and his student Thomas Aquinas.” This article is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook to Dionysius the Areopagite.
Online sources for texts and translation of Aquinas: (i) Corpus Thomisticum: http://www.corpusthomisticum.org; (ii) Aquinas Institute: https://aquinas.institute/operaomnia/ (iii) ISADORE: Website collection of texts and translations of Aquinas. Click HERE.
AThomistic Bibliographies
See the valuable Thomas Aquinas Research Guide at the Catholic University of America LINK.
Note the following on https://thomistica.net/thomistic-bibliography:
From the short article, “The Future of Thomistic Bibliography,” Doctor Angelicus 2 (2002), 193-98:
Note 1: “. . . See: for the years 1270-1900, L. A. Kennedy, A Catalogue of Thomists, 1270-1900 (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987); for the years 1800-1940, P. Mandonnet, J. Destrez, M. D. Chenu, Bibliographie thomiste 1800-1940 (Paris: J. Vrin, 1960); for the years 1920-1940, Vernon J. Bourke, Thomistic Bibliography 1920-1940 (St. Louis [Missouri]: The Modern Schoolman, 1945); for the years 1940-1978, T. L. Miethe and V. J. Bourke, Thomistic Bibliography, 1940-1978 (Westport [Connecticut]: Greenwood Press, 1980); and for the years 1977-1990, Richard Ingardia, Thomas Aquinas International Bibliography 1977-1990 (Bowling Green [Ohio]: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1993)—the latter, despite its title, focuses on philosophical bibliography.”