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Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context. Volume 2, Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World / ed. by Nadja Germann, Mostafa Najafi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context ; Volume 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 343 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110552171
  • 9783110552232
  • 9783110552409
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401 23
LOC classification:
  • P107 .P55 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Cognisable Content: The Work of the Maʿnā in Early Muʿtazilī Theory -- The Voie Diffuse and Reconstruction: The De Audibilibus and Sībawayhi’s Account of Voicing -- The Causes of Grammar: Ibn Jinnī on the Nature of Language -- Notes around Ambiguity: Ibn Sīnā’s Logic, ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī’s Poetics, Rāghib’s Two-Meanings-at-One-Time, and the Figures of Ibhām, Istikhdām, and Tawriya -- The Reception of Pointers 1.6 in Thirteenth- Century Logic: On the Expression’s Signification of Meaning -- Reason and Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and the Ashʿarī Tradition -- Informative and Performative Theories of Divine Speech in Classical Islamic Legal Theory -- Understanding Divine Intention: “Conversational Maxims” and the Legal Theory of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1067) -- After Adam: Ibn ʿAqīl on Language Origin, Change, and Expansion -- Reclassification of Linguistic Meaning: An Integrated Approach -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subject
Summary: What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these have been at the center of lively debate ever since the rise of scholarly activities in the Islamic world during the 8th/9th century. However, in contrast to contemporary philosophy, they were not tackled by scholars adhering to only one specific discipline. Rather, they were addressed across multiple fields and domains, no less by linguists, legal theorists, and theologians than by Aristotelian philosophers. In response to the different challenges faced by these disciplines, highly sophisticated and more specialized areas emerged, comparable to what nowadays would be referred to as semantics, pragmatics, and hermeneutics, to name but a few – fields of research that are pursued to this day and still flourish in some of the traditional schools. Philosophy of language, thus, has been a major theme throughout Islamic intellectual culture in general; a theme which, probably due to its trans-disciplinary nature, has largely been neglected by modern research. This book brings together for the first time experts from the various fields involved, in order to explore the riches of this tradition and make them accessible to a broader public interested both in philosophy and the history of ideas more generally.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Cognisable Content: The Work of the Maʿnā in Early Muʿtazilī Theory -- The Voie Diffuse and Reconstruction: The De Audibilibus and Sībawayhi’s Account of Voicing -- The Causes of Grammar: Ibn Jinnī on the Nature of Language -- Notes around Ambiguity: Ibn Sīnā’s Logic, ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī’s Poetics, Rāghib’s Two-Meanings-at-One-Time, and the Figures of Ibhām, Istikhdām, and Tawriya -- The Reception of Pointers 1.6 in Thirteenth- Century Logic: On the Expression’s Signification of Meaning -- Reason and Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and the Ashʿarī Tradition -- Informative and Performative Theories of Divine Speech in Classical Islamic Legal Theory -- Understanding Divine Intention: “Conversational Maxims” and the Legal Theory of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1067) -- After Adam: Ibn ʿAqīl on Language Origin, Change, and Expansion -- Reclassification of Linguistic Meaning: An Integrated Approach -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subject

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What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these have been at the center of lively debate ever since the rise of scholarly activities in the Islamic world during the 8th/9th century. However, in contrast to contemporary philosophy, they were not tackled by scholars adhering to only one specific discipline. Rather, they were addressed across multiple fields and domains, no less by linguists, legal theorists, and theologians than by Aristotelian philosophers. In response to the different challenges faced by these disciplines, highly sophisticated and more specialized areas emerged, comparable to what nowadays would be referred to as semantics, pragmatics, and hermeneutics, to name but a few – fields of research that are pursued to this day and still flourish in some of the traditional schools. Philosophy of language, thus, has been a major theme throughout Islamic intellectual culture in general; a theme which, probably due to its trans-disciplinary nature, has largely been neglected by modern research. This book brings together for the first time experts from the various fields involved, in order to explore the riches of this tradition and make them accessible to a broader public interested both in philosophy and the history of ideas more generally.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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