Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Detlev Quintern

   Pages 1-5

3. Phenomenology of Life and Metaphysics

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Metamorphic Logos for Post-metaphysics. From the Phenomenology of Life

      • Daniela Verducci

      Pages 9-23

   3. The Effect of Illumination on the Way Back from Aristotle to Plato

      • Salahaddin Khalilov

      Pages 25-35

   4. The ‘High Point’ of Thought: On the Future Thrust of all Transcendence

      • Simon Farid Oliai

      Pages 37-42

   5. The Sources of Truth in the History of Philosophy

      • Konul Bunyadzade

      Pages 43-55

   6. Necessity and Chance: The Metaphysical Dilemma

      • Chris Osegenwune

      Pages 57-68

4. Comparative and Cross-Cultural Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. The Seal of Philosophy: Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life Versus Islamic Metaphysics

      • Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

      Pages 71-101

   3. Confrontation et réconciliation entre l’Islam et l’Occident

      • Angèle Kremer-Marietti

      Pages 103-112

   4. The Question of Divinity in Newton’s and al-Biruni’s Philosophies of Mathematics: A Comparative Perspective

      • A. L. Samian

      Pages 113-123

   5. Algorithms in the Twentieth Century

      • Semiha Akinci

      Pages 125-128

   6. Ontologization of Ethics or Ethicization of Ontology – A Comparative Approach on Plotinus and al-Ghazali

      • Ilona Kock

      Pages 129-141

   7. Avicenna and Husserl: Comparative Aspects

      • Seyed Reza Rokoee Haghighi

      Pages 143-159

   8. Interpreting the Divine Word and Appropriating a Text: The Farāhī-Ricoeur Thematic Affinity

      • Abdul Rahim Afaki

      Pages 161-172

   9. Dieu et son mirage : L’exégèse druze de Coran 24:39

      • Jad Hatem

      Pages 173-183

   10. cAql al-Kullî Meets the Logos of Life: A Cross-Cultural Path Towards a New Enlightenment

       • Detlev Quintern

       Pages 185-194

5. Back Matter

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The contributions, composed in this volume, are inspired not only by the necessity but also by the potentialities of a process which continues and deepens cross-cultural understanding, especially between Islamic and Western philosophy. Following the tradition of an East-Western symphony of thoughts, the authors focus on common horizons and while applying comparative and historical approaches, varieties of unity appear on the ways towards a New Enlightenment. The creative force, orchestrating the harmony in the web of Life, communicates in the mean time with the capacities of human beings, advancing in deciphering its micro-macrocosmic dimensions. Here, the encounter of the Logos of Life Philosophy (A-T. Tymieniecka) and Islamic Philosophy open the space for constructive disputation. In the wake of the crisis of postmodern unknowability, paths towards a new critique of reason go hand in hand with fundamental issues, being reflected newly.

• Occidental phenomenology
• Phenomenology of life
• Phenomenology of life and metaphysics
• Thrust of transcendence
• metamorphic logos for post-metaphysics
• metaphysical dilemmas

• The World Phenomenology Institute, Hanover, USA

  Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

• Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Nazif Muhtaroglu

• Professor Dr. Fuat Sezgin Research Found History of Science in Islam, Istanbul, Turkey

  Detlev Quintern

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