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Medieval Arabic thought : essays in honour of Fritz Zimmermann
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Medieval Arabic thought : essays in honour of Fritz Zimmermann

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Preface
Galen and al-Rāzī on time / Peter Adamson
The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazālī: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti
Some Syriac Pseudo-Platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock
Al-Jāḥiẓ on Aṣḥāb al-Jahālāt and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone
Jawhar and Dhāt in some medieval Arabic philosophers (or, On 'Dhis and Dhat') / Julian Faultless
Le scepticisme et sa réfutation selon al-Malāḥimī / Charles Genequand
Mediating the medium: the Arabic Plotinus on vision / Rotraud Hansberger
Shīʹī views of the death of the Prophet Muḥammad / Etan Kohlberg
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's exposition of mayl / Y. Tzvi Langermann
ʻĪsā ibn ʻUmayr's Ibāḍī theology and Donatist Christian thought / Wilferd Madelung
The absurdities of infinite time: Shahrastānī's critique of Ibn Sīnā and Ṭūsī's defence / Toby Mayer
The Islamic literature on encounters between Muslim renunciants and Christian monks / Christopher Melchert
The development of translation techniques from Greek into Syriac and Arabic: the case of Galen's On the faculties and powers of simple drugs, book six / Peter E. Pormann
The working files of Rhazes: are the Jāmiʻ and the Ḥāwī identical? / Emilie Savage-Smith
Waiting for Philoponus / Richard Sorabji
[Greek title] / Manfred Ullman
On coincidence: the twenty-seventh and twenty-eight nights of al-Tawḥīdī's al-Imtāʻ wa-l-muʼānasa. An annotated translation / Geert Jan van Gelder
Fragments of the hitherto lost Arabic translations of Galen's On my own opinions in the Philosophy Reader MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Oriental Collections, Marsh 539 / Elvira Wakelnig
A list of publications of Fritz Zimmermann
Index of proper names.

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