Philosopher RespondsʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Bilal Orfali et al.
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"Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past ever if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, "The Philosipher Respons" is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʻAlī Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2021The philosopher respondsNew York University Press · 388 pages · 9781479806355
- Other · English · 2019New York University Press · 336 pages · 9781479871483
- Other · English · 2019New York University Press · 372 pages · 9781479834600
Middle eastern philologyCorrespondenceArab AuthorsPhilosophersIslamic philosophyEarly works to 1800