The philosopher responds : an intellectual correspondence from the tenth century / Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū 'Alī Miskawayh ; edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz ; translated by Sophia Vasalou and James E. Montgomery = الهوامل والشوامل / آبو حيّان التوحيديّ وأبو عليّ مسكويه

Title: The philosopher responds : an intellectual correspondence from the tenth century / Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū 'Alī Miskawayh ; edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz ; translated by Sophia Vasalou and James E. Montgomery = al-Hawāmil wa-al-shawāmil / Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī wa-Abū ʻAlī Miskawayh
Author: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century
Additional Titles: Hawāmil wa-al-shawāmil and هوامل والشوامل
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]-
Physical Description: volumes : map ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Ibn Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1030, Urfahʹlī, Bilāl, Pomerantz, Maurice A., Vasalou, Sophia, Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962-, Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century, and Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century

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Library of Arabic literature

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Arabic text with parallel English translations from the Arabic.

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"Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past ever if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, "The Philosipher Respons" is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʻAlī Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth centuries.

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9781479871483 (v. 1)
1479871486 (v. 1)
9781479834600 (v. 2)
1479834602 (v. 2)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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