The Oxford handbook of Islamic philosophy

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The work The Oxford handbook of Islamic philosophy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Oxford handbook of Islamic philosophy

Statement of responsibility

edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke

Title variation

Islamic philosophy

Contributor

• El-Rouayheb, Khaled
• Schmidtke, Sabine

Editor

• El-Rouayheb, Khaled
• Schmidtke, Sabine

Subject

• Islamic philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the grand narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. The bulk of twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that the present Handbook gives roughly equal weight to every century from the ninth to the twentieth

Member of

• Oxford handbooks online

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

181.07

Index

index present

Intended audience

Specialized

LC call number

B741

LC item number

.O94 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford handbooks online

Target audience

specialized