Frank Griffel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 484583 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frank Griffel |
| NOMBRES | Frank |
| APELLIDO | Griffel |
| FIRMA | GRIFFEL F |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Two Divergent Schools in Sixth-/Twelfth-Century Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides’ Seventh Reason for Contradictions in Books
Rationalität in der islamischen Theologie. Band I
Titelseiten
Place of Virtue Ethics within the Post-Classical Discourse on ḥikma
Preserved in what seems to be a unique manuscript at the Bodleian Library, al-Nafs wa-l-rūḥ wa-sharḥ quwāhumā (The Soul and the Spirit together with an Explanation of Their Faculties) of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) is a curious book. At the beginning, the author decribes the text as part of the philosophical sciences (as opposed to the religious ones) and clarifies that it deals with ʿilm al-akhlāq, meaning Aristotelian virtue ethics. The …
Law and Politics under the Abbasids
Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni. By Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii + 312. $99.99 (cloth), $32.99 (paper), $26 (ebook)
The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam
This is a comprehensive study of the far-reaching changes that led to a reshaping of the philosophical discourse in Islam during the sixth/twelfth century. Whereas earlier Western scholars thought that Islam’s engagement with the tradition of Greek philosophy ended during that century, more recent analyses suggest its integration into the genre of rationalist Muslim theology ( kalam ). This book proposes a third view about the fate of philosophy …
Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam
On the Character, Content, and Authorship of Itmām Tatimmat Ṣiwān al-ḥikma and the Identity of the Author of Muntakhab Ṣiwān al-ḥikma
The fourth/tenth-century Ṣiwān al-ḥikma is one of the most important doxographic and gnomologic texts in Arabic and was most instrumental in the transmission of philosophical knowledge from Greek into Arabic. Despite its importance, the original text has been lost and the book is known to us only in excerpts, one of which, Muntakhab Ṣiwān al-ḥikma, was so successful that it probably replaced the original. The identity of the Muntakhab's compiler,…
Ibn Taymiyya and His Ashʿarite Opponents on Reason and Revelation
Contradictions and Lots of Ambiguity
For a long time, the Western academic study of Islam could not escape making implicit comparisons between its own religions, culture, and “civilization” and that of Islam. One would think that the events of September 11, 2001, and the polarization that followed—including the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now in Syria—only aggravated that situation. But the opposite is true. Among the generation of scholars of Islam who matured in the West after …
Lost Enlightenment. Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, written by S. Frederick Starr, 2013
Ismāʿīlite Critique of Ibn Sīnā
Al-Shahrastānī’s (d. 548/1153) Wrestling Match with the Falāsifa (Muṣāraʿat al-falāsifa) is the second book of refutation of Ibn Sīnā’s (Avicenna, d. 428/1037) philosophy by a Muslim philosopher and theologian. While al-Ghazālī tried to prove the nondemonstrative character of Ibn Sīnā’s teachings, al-Shahrastānī “wrestles” with Ibn Sīnā about what is true to say about God. Heavily influenced by the cosmology of the Ismāʿīlite Shīʿites of his day,…
Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya. Die naturphilosophischen Überlegungen des al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ . By Jan Thiele. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 86. Leiden
What Do We Mean By "Salafī"? Connecting Muḥammad ʿAbduh with Egypt's Nūr Party in Islam's Contemporary Intellectual History
In contemporary academic literature, the word "Salafī" has a variety of meanings. Most importantly, Western academic literature of the 20th and 21st centuries applies the word to (1) an Islamic reform movement founded by Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (d. 1897) and Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849-1905) in the last decades of the 19th century and (2) to contemporary Sunni reform movements that criticize manifestations of Sunni Islam which are based on Sufism, Ashʿ…
“… And the killing of someone who upholds these convictions is obligatory!” Religious Law and the Assumed Disappearance of Philosophy in Islam
“... and the killing of someone who upholds these convictions is obligatory!” Religious Law and the Assumed Disappearance of Philosophy in Islam was published in Das Gesetz – The Law – La Loi on page 214.
Theology Engages With Avicennan Philosophy
This chapter discusses two books of refutation written by two Muslim theologians, the Ashʿarite al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) and the Muʿtazilite Ibn al-Malāḥimī (d. 536/1141). Both books aim at refuting teachings of the Muslimfalāsifa, here understood as the Aristotelian tradition in Islam, represented by al-Farābī (d. 339/950–1) and Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037). While Ibn al-Malāḥimī in hisTuḥfat al-mutakallimīnaims at a straightforward rejection of most …
Der Eine und das Andere
Der Eine und das Andere : Beobachtungen an islamischen häresiographischen Texten, by Josef van Ess (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients: 23) (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011), 2 vols, xxviii + xvi + 1510 pp., ISBN: 978-3-11-021577-9 â ¬209 / $293 (hb) (First paragraph) Josef van Ess ́s latest work is a monumental study of the Islamic heresiographic tradition in Arabic and in Persian literatures. In the style of his col…
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
This book looks like a serious academic study in Islamic theology. Itis divided into nine chapters that build on an overall argument andhas a great number of endnotes, quoting Muslim sources and literaturepro-duced in the field of Islamic studies. The book’s author workswith-in Washington’s circle of government institutions and thinktanks. His book comes with a foreword and no fewer than tenendorsements by colleagues of Reilly, which praise his e…
Al-Ghazali, Averroes and the Interpretation of the Qurrhringan
Journal Article Al-Ghazali, Averroës and the Interpretation of the Qurʾan: Common Sense and Philosophy in IslamBy Avital Wohlman, translated by David Burrell Get access Al-Ghazali, Averroës and the Interpretation of the Qurʾan: Common Sense and Philosophy in IslamBy Avital Wohlman, translated by David Burrell (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), 130 pp. Price HB £65.00. EAN 978–0415557207. Frank Griffel Frank Griffel Yale University E-mail: frank.griffel…
Al‐Ghazālī's Use of “Original Human Disposition” ( Fiṭra ) and Its Background in the Teachings of al‐Fārābī and Avicenna
Classical Islamic Theology
When in 1996, Richard M. Frank gave the presidential address at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, he had a clear message for his colleagues: ‘[...] to understand one has to be still and listen—[...] listen carefully in order to get what another (the mutakallim) is saying, and this can be difficult, as when eavesdropping on a conversation at an adjacent table. We miss some words or are too easily distracted by the presence of th…
Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology
Al-Ghazali (d. 1111) is one of the most important theologians, philosophers, and Sufis of Islam. Born around 1056 in northeastern Iran, he became the holder of the most prestigious academic post in Islamic theology in Baghdad, only to renounce that position and teach at small schools in the provinces for no money. His contributions to Islamic scholarship range from responding to the challenges of Aristotelian philosophy to creating a new type of …
The philosophical theology of al-Ghazali
Shari’a
This volume presents ten leading scholars' writings on contemporary Islamic law and Muslim thought. The essays examine a range of issues, from modern Muslim discourses on justice, natural law, and the common good, to democracy, the social contract, and "the authority of the preeminent jurist." Changes in how Shari'a has been understood over the centuries are explored, as well as how it has been applied in both Sunni and Shi'i Islam. Debates on th…
The Harmony of Natural Law and Shari’a in Islamist Theology
What Do We Mean By "Salafī"? Connecting Muḥammad ʿAbduh with Egypt's Nūr Party in Islam's Contemporary Intellectual History
In contemporary academic literature, the word "Salafī" has a variety of meanings. Most importantly, Western academic literature of the 20th and 21st centuries applies the word to (1) an Islamic reform movement founded by Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (d. 1897) and Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849-1905) in the last decades of the 19th century and (2) to contemporary Sunni reform movements that criticize manifestations of Sunni Islam which are based on Sufism, Ashʿ…
On Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's Life and the Patronage He Received
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) was one of the most important proponents of the rationalist wing of Ashʿarism, which responded to the tradition of falsafa in Islam by rejecting some of its teachings while adopting others. He and other scholars of his time achieved an effective integration of falsafa into Muslim theology. This article looks at his life and focuses in particular on his relationship with political figures who were his patrons and…
Al‐Ghazālī's Use of “Original Human Disposition” ( Fiṭra ) and Its Background in the Teachings of al‐Fārābī and Avicenna
Toleration and exclusion
The muslim judgement against apostates has in recent years been applied in cases of publicly expressed conviction that contradict generally accepted foundations of the Muslim faith. This situation is, however, only the outcome of a theological and legal development in the 5th/11th century. Until that time, the judgement of apostasy (irtidād) could not have been applied against Muslims who voiced opinions that were regarded as unbelief. The rules …
Ibn Taymiyya and His Ashʿarite Opponents on Reason and Revelation
Der Peptimist oder Von den seltsamen Vorfallen um das Verschwinden Saids des Glucklosen. Roman aus Palastina
Toleration and exclusion
The muslim judgement against apostates has in recent years been applied in cases of publicly expressed conviction that contradict generally accepted foundations of the Muslim faith. This situation is, however, only the outcome of a theological and legal development in the 5th/11th century. Until that time, the judgement of apostasy (irtidād) could not have been applied against Muslims who voiced opinions that were regarded as unbelief. The rules …
Al-Juwaynī's Thought and Methodology, with a Translation and Commentary on Lumaʿ al-Adilla
Al-Ghazāli, The Niche of Lights
Maimonides' Empire of Light
Apostasie und Toleranz im Islam
Al-Ġazālī's Concept of Prophecy
The traditional argument of Muslim theologians that aims to verify the claims of a true prophet and distinguish him from an impostor is based on the acceptance of miracles performed in history and testified through an uninterrupted chain of tradition ( tawātur ). A second argument that equally involves transmission through tawātur is based on the prophet’s virtuous and impeccable character establishing the trustworthiness ( sidq ) of the prophet.…
Der Fehltritt des Gelehrten
Al-Ghazālī's Unspeakable Doctrine of the Soul
MS London, British Library Or. 3126
MS London, British Library Or. 3126 is a sizeable book of 284 folios. Its title page identifies it as a copy of Maqāsid al-falāsifa, and it has subsequently been catalogued as such. Yet the full description of the manuscript in the British Library catalogue mentions that it cannot be identified with Maqāsid al-falāsifa or any other work by al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111). A close look at the MS confirms its unique character. It is a compilation and adap…
Friedrich Niewöhner 1941-2005
Shari’a
This volume presents ten leading scholars' writings on contemporary Islamic law and Muslim thought. The essays examine a range of issues, from modern Muslim discourses on justice, natural law, and the common good, to democracy, the social contract, and "the authority of the preeminent jurist." Changes in how Shari'a has been understood over the centuries are explored, as well as how it has been applied in both Sunni and Shi'i Islam. Debates on th…
The Harmony of Natural Law and Shari’a in Islamist Theology
On Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's Life and the Patronage He Received
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) was one of the most important proponents of the rationalist wing of Ashʿarism, which responded to the tradition of falsafa in Islam by rejecting some of its teachings while adopting others. He and other scholars of his time achieved an effective integration of falsafa into Muslim theology. This article looks at his life and focuses in particular on his relationship with political figures who were his patrons and…
Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology
Al-Ghazali (d. 1111) is one of the most important theologians, philosophers, and Sufis of Islam. Born around 1056 in northeastern Iran, he became the holder of the most prestigious academic post in Islamic theology in Baghdad, only to renounce that position and teach at small schools in the provinces for no money. His contributions to Islamic scholarship range from responding to the challenges of Aristotelian philosophy to creating a new type of …
The philosophical theology of al-Ghazali
Classical Islamic Theology
When in 1996, Richard M. Frank gave the presidential address at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, he had a clear message for his colleagues: ‘[...] to understand one has to be still and listen—[...] listen carefully in order to get what another (the mutakallim) is saying, and this can be difficult, as when eavesdropping on a conversation at an adjacent table. We miss some words or are too easily distracted by the presence of th…
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
This book looks like a serious academic study in Islamic theology. Itis divided into nine chapters that build on an overall argument andhas a great number of endnotes, quoting Muslim sources and literaturepro-duced in the field of Islamic studies. The book’s author workswith-in Washington’s circle of government institutions and thinktanks. His book comes with a foreword and no fewer than tenendorsements by colleagues of Reilly, which praise his e…
Al-Ghazali, Averroes and the Interpretation of the Qurrhringan
Journal Article Al-Ghazali, Averroës and the Interpretation of the Qurʾan: Common Sense and Philosophy in IslamBy Avital Wohlman, translated by David Burrell Get access Al-Ghazali, Averroës and the Interpretation of the Qurʾan: Common Sense and Philosophy in IslamBy Avital Wohlman, translated by David Burrell (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), 130 pp. Price HB £65.00. EAN 978–0415557207. Frank Griffel Frank Griffel Yale University E-mail: frank.griffel…
Al‐Ghazālī's Use of “Original Human Disposition” ( Fiṭra ) and Its Background in the Teachings of al‐Fārābī and Avicenna
Der Eine und das Andere
Der Eine und das Andere : Beobachtungen an islamischen häresiographischen Texten, by Josef van Ess (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients: 23) (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011), 2 vols, xxviii + xvi + 1510 pp., ISBN: 978-3-11-021577-9 â ¬209 / $293 (hb) (First paragraph) Josef van Ess ́s latest work is a monumental study of the Islamic heresiographic tradition in Arabic and in Persian literatures. In the style of his col…
“… And the killing of someone who upholds these convictions is obligatory!” Religious Law and the Assumed Disappearance of Philosophy in Islam
“... and the killing of someone who upholds these convictions is obligatory!” Religious Law and the Assumed Disappearance of Philosophy in Islam was published in Das Gesetz – The Law – La Loi on page 214.
Theology Engages With Avicennan Philosophy
This chapter discusses two books of refutation written by two Muslim theologians, the Ashʿarite al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) and the Muʿtazilite Ibn al-Malāḥimī (d. 536/1141). Both books aim at refuting teachings of the Muslimfalāsifa, here understood as the Aristotelian tradition in Islam, represented by al-Farābī (d. 339/950–1) and Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037). While Ibn al-Malāḥimī in hisTuḥfat al-mutakallimīnaims at a straightforward rejection of most …
Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya. Die naturphilosophischen Überlegungen des al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ . By Jan Thiele. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 86. Leiden
What Do We Mean By "Salafī"? Connecting Muḥammad ʿAbduh with Egypt's Nūr Party in Islam's Contemporary Intellectual History
In contemporary academic literature, the word "Salafī" has a variety of meanings. Most importantly, Western academic literature of the 20th and 21st centuries applies the word to (1) an Islamic reform movement founded by Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (d. 1897) and Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849-1905) in the last decades of the 19th century and (2) to contemporary Sunni reform movements that criticize manifestations of Sunni Islam which are based on Sufism, Ashʿ…
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