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Feb 2023
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Neoplatonism in Islamic Thought

FILIP HOLM
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It's time to talk about a few ways that Neoplatonic ideas have shown up in the history of Islamic thought.



Sources/Recomended Reading:

  • Adamson, Peter (ed.) (2005). "The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy". Cambridge University Press.
  • al-Ghazali - "The Niche of Lights". Translated by David Buchman. Islamic Translations Series. University of Chicago Press.
  • Daftary, Farhad (2007). "The Isma'ilis: Their history and doctrines". Cambridge University Press.
  • Chittick, William (2005). "Ibn Arabi: Heir to the Prophets". OneWorld Publications.
  • Chittick, William (1989). "The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn 'Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination".
  • Chittick, William (1998). "The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-'Arabi's Cosmology". State University of New York Press.
  • Chittick, William (2005). "The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi". World Wisdom, inc.
  • Dillon, John (1996). "The Middle Platonists". Bristol Classical Press.
  • Gerson, Loyd P. (ed.) (2019). "Plotinus: The Enneads". Cambridge University Press. (This is the translation of the Enneads I have been using in this episode).
  • Gerson, Loyd P (2008). "Cambridge Companion to Plotinus". Cambridge University Press.
  • Ibn Sina - "A Treatise on Love". Translated by Emil L. Fackenheim. Medieval Studies.
  • Ibn 'Arabi - "The Ringstones of Wisdom (Fusus al-Hikam)". Translation by Caner K. Dagli. Great Books of the Islamic World.
  • Ibn Arabi - "The Universal Tree and the Four Birds (al-ittihad al-kawni). Translated by Angela Jaffray. Oxford: Anqa Publishing.
  • Ibn 'Arabi - "The Openings Revealed in Makkah: al-futuhat al-makkiyya". Translated by Eric Winkel. Volumes 1-4. Pir Press.
  • Morewedge, Parviz (1992). "Neoplatonism and Islamic Thought". State University of New York Press.
  • Ormsby, Eric (Translated by) (2012). "Between Reason and Revelation: Twin wisdoms reconciled". An annotated English translation of Nasir-i Khusraw's Kitab-i Jami al-hikmatayn. The Institute of Isma'ili Studies. I.B. Tauris.
  • Proclus "The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, Introduction, and Commentary". Translated by E.R. Dodds. Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
  • O'Meara, Dominic J. (1999). "Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads". Oxford University Press.
  • Wallis, R.T. (1998). "Neoplatonism". Second Edition. Bristol Classical Paperbacks. Hackett Publishing Company.


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