The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East from the 12th to the 13th Century

拟议的项目侧重于阿维森纳哲学在伊斯兰东方（从叙利亚到中亚）在12 - 13世纪的接受。对这一时期大量现存的哲学著作的研究很少，但越来越清楚的是，这是一个复杂而复杂的哲学活动时期，在此期间，传统伊斯兰神学（kalām）和神秘主义的思想被整合到阿维森纳（伊本·桑纳，d.1037）的辩护和批评中。他是后期伊斯兰哲学的主要哲学权威，就像亚里士多德在早期的几代人中一样。为了为这一时期的进一步研究和教学奠定基础，我们选择了对他的逻辑学、物理学、心理学和形而上学至关重要的主题。我们翻译和分析12 - 13世纪作品中的段落，其中一系列思想家与阿维森纳就这些主题进行了讨论。该项目已于2016年开始获得DFG的资助，当时计划的六年工作中的前三年获得了支持;我们现在正在申请资助，以覆盖剩余的三年。这将使我们有可能制作三本英文翻译的原始资料，并辅之以原文（主要是阿拉伯语，一些波斯语和叙利亚语）的免费在线数据库。我们还出版了文章长度的案例研究，传播我们对这一显着的，但在很大程度上是未知的哲学时期的研究成果。因此，该项目将提供前所未有的广泛文本，展示这一被忽视的材料对广大哲学观众的兴趣，并为未来研究伊斯兰世界更晚时期的哲学奠定基础。

The proposed project focuses on the reception of Avicenna’s philosophy in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. There has been very little research into the large number of extant philosophical works from this period, yet it is becoming increasingly clear that it was a time of complex and sophisticated philosophical activity, during which ideas of traditional Islamic theology (kalām) and mysticism were integrated into both defenses and criticisms of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037). He was the dominant philosophical authority in later Islamic philosophy, much as Aristotle had been for earlier generations. To create a basis for further research and teaching on this period, we are selecting themes that are central to his logic, physics, psychology, and metaphysics. We translate and analyze passages from works of the 12th-13th centuries, in which a range of thinkers engage with Avicenna on these themes. The project already began with DFG funding in 2016, at which time support for the first three of six planned years of work was granted; we are now applying for funding to cover the remaining three years. This will make it possible for us to produce three sourcebooks of passages in English translation, which will be complemented by a free online database of the same passages in the original language (mostly Arabic, some Persian and Syriac). We are also publishing article-length case studies disseminating the fruits of our research on this remarkable but largely uncharted period of philosophy. The project will thereby make a wide range of texts available as never before, demonstrate the interest of this overlooked material for a broad philosophical audience, and lay groundwork for future research into still later periods of philosophy in the Islamic world.