《阿拉伯哲学》的作者均为西方颇具声望的阿拉伯哲学研究领域的专家和学者。本书内容凡19篇，大多以著名的哲学家为主题，如肯迭、法拉比、阿维森纳、安萨里、阿维罗伊，或是以一些重要的哲学流派为线索，比如新柏拉图主义、伊斯玛仪派、照明学派、伊斯兰神秘主义等，并对阿拉伯一伊斯兰哲学传统中更为广泛的一些内容，如逻辑学、伦理与政治哲学、自然哲学、心理学、形而上学等进行了全面的介绍，同时还涉及到阿拉伯哲学与西方其他哲学传统的交流与融合，书后附有的参考书目以著名的阿拉伯哲学家和研究者为线索，对进一步阅读和研究工作的开展极具参考价值。

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 Chronology of major philosophers

in the Arabic tradition

1   Introduction

  PETER ADAMSON AND RICHARD C. TAYLOR

2  Greek into Arabic: Neoplatonism in translation

  CRISTINA D'ANCONA

3   A1-Kindi and the reception of Greek philosophy

VETER ADAMSON

4  A1-Farabi and the philosophical curriculum

  DAVID C. REISMAN

5   The Ismailis

  PAUL E. WALKER

6   Avicenna and the Avicennian Tradition

  ROBERT WISNOVSKY

7   Al-Ghazali

  MICHAEL E. MARMURA

8   Philosophy in Andalusia: Ibn B~jja and Ibn Tufayl

  JOSEF PUIG MONTADA

9  Averroes: religious dialectic and Aristotelian

philosophical thought

  RICHARD C. TAYLOR

10 Suhrawardi and Illuminationism

  JOHN WALBRIDGE

11 Mysticism and philosophy: Ibn 'Arabi and

Mulla Sadra

 SAJJAD H. RIZVI

I2 Logic

  TONY STREET

13 Ethical and political philosophy

  CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH

14 Natural philosophy

  MARWAN RASHED

15 Psychology: soul and intellect

  DEBORAH L. BLACK

16 Metaphysics

  THERESE-ANNE DRUART

17 Islamic philosophy and Jewish philosophy

  STEVEN HARVEY

18 Arabic into Latin: the reception of Arabic

 philosophy into Western Europe

  CHARLES BURNETT

19 Recent trends in Arabic and Persian philosophy

  HOSSEIN ZIAI

 Select bibliography and further reading

 Index