Islamic Political Philosophy Bibliography Andrew F. March Introduction By political philosophy we mean not all political thought or theory in the Islamic tradition, but the specific tradition formed by the translation of classical Greek philosophy into Arabic. The boundaries should not be drawn too sharply here (since philosophical methods and themes were also integrated into orthodox theology and law, and because many philosophers did see themselves as providing philosophical account of certain creedal commitments from Islamic and Jewish theology), but this entry focuses primarily on works recognizably within the falsafa tradition as understood in classical Islamic learning. General Surveys of Islamic Political Philosophy Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), particularly the chapter by Charles Butterworth, Ethical and Political Philosophy. Brague, Rémi. The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Butterworth, Charles, ed., The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992) [see references to specific chapters below]. E. Gannagé et al. (eds), The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought, special issue of Mélanges de l Université Saint-Joseph 62 (2004). Butterworth, Charles E. Philosophy of Law in Medieval Judaism and Islam, in Fred D. Miller Jr., ed., A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics (vol. 6 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence; Dordrecht: Springer, 2007). Crone, Patricia, God s Rule: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), Ch. 14, The Greek Tradition and Political Science. Majid Fakhry, A History of Islamic Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 3 rd ed., 2004). History of Islamic Philosophy, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman, eds., (London: Routledge, 1996). Daiber, Hans. Political Philosophy, in History of Islamic Philosophy, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman, eds., (London: Routledge, 1996). 1
Kraemer, Joel L. The Jihād of the Falāsifa, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 10 (1987). History of Greek Philosophy and the Translation Movement Gutas, Dimitri. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early ʿAbbāsid society (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries) (New York: Routledge, 1998).. The Study of Arabic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: An Essay on the Historiography of Arabic Philosophy, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2002). Readers and Anthologies of Primary Texts in Translation John McGinnis and David C. Reisman, Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007) Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, 1 st, Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi, eds., (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972). Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, 2 nd, Joshua Parens and Joseph C. Macfarland, eds. (Cornell University Press, 2011). Farabi Alfarabi, Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Muhsin Mahdi trans., (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001) Alfarabi, the political writings: selected aphorisms and other texts, Charles E. Butterworth trans. and ed. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), including: Al-Farabi, Selected Aphorisms in Alfarabi, the political writings: selected aphorisms and other texts. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2001).. Enumeration of the Sciences in Alfarabi, the political writings: selected aphorisms and other texts. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2001).. Book of Religion in Alfarabi, the political writings: selected aphorisms and other texts. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2001). 2
. The Harmonization of the Two Opinions of the Two Sages: Plato the Divine and Aristotle in in Alfarabi, the political writings: selected aphorisms and other texts. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2001). Al-Farabi, On the Perfect State (Mabadiʾ araʾ al-madina al-fadila), Richard Walzer ed. and trans., (Chicago, IL: Kazi Publications, 1988). David C. Reisman, Al-Fārābī and the Philosophical Curriculum, in Adamson and Taylor, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Patricia Crone, Al-Fārābī s Imperfect Constitutions, in Gannagé et al. (eds), The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought. Dimitri Gutas, The Meaning of madanī in al-fārābī s Political Philosophy, in Gannagé et al. (eds), The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought. Gutas, Galen s Synopsis of Plato s Laws and Farabi's Talkhis, in The ancient tradition in Christian and Islamic Hellenism : studies on the transmission of Greek philosophy and sciences dedicated to H. J. Drossaart Lulofs on his ninetieth birthday Nelly Lahoud, Al-Fārābī: On Religion and Philosophy, in Gannagé et al. (eds), The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought) Fauzi M. Najjar, al-fārābī and Political Science, The Muslim World 48.2 (1958) pp. 94-103. Fauzi M. Najjar, Fārābī's Political Philosophy and Shīʿism, Studia Islamica (1961) Ulrich Rudolph, Reflections on al-fārābī s, Mabādiʾ ārāʾ ahl al-madīna al-fāḍila, in Peter Adamson, ed., In The Age of Al-Fārābī: Arabic Philosophy in The Fourth-Tenth Century (London : Warburg Institute, 2008). Leo Strauss, How Fārābī read Plato s Laws, in What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) and Persecution and the Art of Writing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). Muhsin Mahdi, Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001) Miriam Galston, Politics and Excellence: The Political Philosophy of Alfarabi (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990). 3
Hans Daiber, The Ruler as Philosopher: A New Interpretation of al-fārābī s View (Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co., 1986). Christopher A. Colmo, Breaking with Athens: Alfarabi as Founder (Lexington Books, 2005). Ibn Sina (Avicenna): Avicenna, The Metaphysics of The Healing, trans. Michael E. Marmura (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2005. McGinnis, Jon. Avicenna (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Miriam Galston, Realism and Idealism in Avicenna s Political Philosophy, The Review of Politics, 41:4 (1979), pp. 561-577 James W. Morris, The Philosopher-Prophet in Avicenna s Political Philosophy, in Butterworth, ed., The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy Charles E. Butterworth, The Political Teaching of Avicenna, Topoi 19 (2000), pp. 35-44. M. Cüneyt Kaya, In the Shadow of Prophetic Legislation : The Venture of Practical Philosophy after Avicenna, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 24: 2 (September 2014), pp. 269-296. Ibn Bajja (Avempace): Ibn Bajja. Governance of the Solitary, trans. Berman in Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, eds. Joshua Parens and Joseph C. Macfarland. Cornell University Press (2011).. Risalat al-wadaʿ. In Rasaʾil Ibn Bajja al-ilahiyya. Ed. Majid Fakhry. Beirut: Dar al-nahar, 1968.. Risalat ittisal al-ʿaql bi l-insan. In Rasaʾil Ibn Bajja al-ilahiyya. Ed. Majid Fakhry. Beirut: Dar al-nahar, 1968. 4
D.M. Dunlop, Remarks on the Life and Works of Ibn Bājjah (Avempace), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Congress of Orientalists (Leiden: Brill, 1957), pp. 188-196. Erwin I.J. Rosenthal, The Place of Politics in the Philosophy of Ibn Bājja, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 15:2 (1953), pp. 246-278. Goodman, Lenn E. Ibn Bajjah, in History of Islamic Philosophy, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman, eds., (London: Routledge, 1996). Steven Harvey, The Place of the Philosopher in the City According to Ibn Bājjah, in Butterworth, ed., The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy, pp. 199-233. Ibn Tufayl: Lenn E. Goodman, Ibn Tufayl s Hayy ibn Yaqzan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Carra de Vaux, B. Ibn Tufayl, in Encyclopedia of Islam 2. Lawrence I. Conrad, An Andalusian Physician at the Court of the Muwahhids: Some Notes on the Public Career of Ibn Tufayl, Al-Qantara: Revista de estudios árabes, 16:1 (1995), pp. 3-14. Lenn E. Goodman, Ibn Tufayl s Hayy ibn Yaqzan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), introduction. Hillel Fradkin, The Political Thought of Ibn Ṭufayl, in Butterworth, ed., The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy, pp. 234-261. Michael S. Kochin, Weeds: Cultivating the Imagination in Medieval Arabic Political Philosophy, Journal of the History of Ideas, 60.3 (1999), pp. 399-416. Murad Idris, Ibn Ṭufayl s Critique of Politics, Journal of Islamic Philosophy, 7 (2011), pp. 67-101. Ibn Rushd (Averroës): Averroës, Tahafut al-tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence), trans. Simon van den Bergh (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 5
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