AAIWG Members are asked to share here information on their publications 2019 and later by emailing page editor, Paul-Hervé Quesnel, at AAIWGMembersPublications@gmail.com. The listings here are alphabetical by last name and will be updated on 1 and 15 of the month.
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Prof. Katja Krause, Thomas Aquinas on Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in his Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences IV.49.2. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2020. See Thomas Aquinas on Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in his Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences IV.49.2 | MPIWG (mpg.de). Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences is, alas, rarely read. Thanks to Krause’s English translation of the gigantic q. 2 of book 4, distinction 4 (on the beatific vision), however, Aquinas’s early thought on this important theological and philosophical puzzle is now accessible to a wider readership. This book is more than a text translation: It is a veritable goldmine of information about the historical and conceptual dimensions of the problem with which Aquinas grapples. Its extensive volume introduction, which lays out all the strands of discourse – Greek, Arabic, Latin – in the historical conversation that Aquinas inherited, is a must-read for scholars working in the area, while also being clear and accessible for non-specialist readers. Additionally, Krause has provided illuminating introductions that clearly and elegantly map out the concepts at issue in each article. With Krause’s aid, readers will find themselves well-equipped to plunge into these deep waters with Aquinas
Prof. Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico, Classical Islamic Philosophy. A Thematic Introduction, published August 2021. See https://www.routledge.com/Classical-Islamic-Philosophy-A-Thematic-Introduction/Lopez-Farjeat/p/book/9781138229488 Price: $42.95. For a 20% discount in ordering use the code FLY21 or SMA07. This thematic introduction to classical Islamic philosophy focuses on the most prevalent philosophical debates of the medieval Islamic world and their importance within the history of philosophy. Approaching the topics in a comprehensive and accessible way in this new volume, Luis Xavier Lopez-Farjeat, one of the co-editors of The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, makes classical Islamic philosophy approachable for both the new and returning student of the history of philosophy, medieval philosophy, the history of ideas, classical Islamic intellectual history, and the history of religion. Providing readers with a complete view of the most hotly contested debates in the Islamic philosophical tradition, Lopez- Farjeat discusses the development of theology (kalām) and philosophy (falsafa) during the Abbāsid period, including the translation of Aristotle into Arabic, the philosophy and theology of Islamic revelation, logic and philosophy of language, philosophy of natural science, metaphysics, psychology and cognition, and ethics and political philosophy. This volume serves as an indispensable tool for teachers, students, and independent learners aiming to discover the philosophical problems and ideas that defined the classical Islamic world.
Taylor, Richard C., “Causality in the Discourse on the Pure Good, the Arabic Liber de causis,” forthcoming August 2021 in French translation in G. Aubry, L. Brisson, Ph. Hoffmann, L. Lavaud (dir.), Les Eléments de théologie de Proclus; interprétations, réceptions de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Paris, Hermann.
“Contextualizing the Kalām fī maḥḍ al-khair / Liber de causis,” in D. Calma (ed.), Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes (5th-16th Centuries), vol. 2: Translations and Acculturations, Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2021, pp. 211-232. (In print Fall 2020, copyright 2021.)
“Maimonides and Aquinas on Divine Attributes: The Importance of Avicenna” in J. Stern, J. T. Robinson and Y. Shemesh (eds.) The Guide of the Perplexed in Translation: A History of the Translations of Maimonides’ Guide and Their Impact, from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) pp. 333-363.
“Avicenna and the Issue of the Intellectual Abstraction of Intelligibles,” in Vol. 2 Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages, ed. Margaret Cameron, in The History of the Philosophy of Mind, ed. R. Copenhaver and Ch. Shields, (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: 2019) vol. 2 pp. 56-82.
“Averroes on the Attainment of Knowledge,” in Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy, ed. Henrik Lagerlund in The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History, ed. Stephen Hetherington, (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) vol. 2, pp. 59-79.