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

拟议的项目侧重于在公元12-13世纪接受阿维森纳的哲学在伊斯兰东方(从叙利亚到中亚)。有很少的研究，从这个时期现存的大量哲学著作，但越来越清楚的是，这是一个复杂和成熟的哲学活动的时间，在此期间，传统的伊斯兰神学(kalām)和神秘主义的思想被整合到对阿维森纳的辩护和批评(伊本Sīnā，d.1037)。他是后来伊斯兰哲学的主导哲学权威，就像亚里士多德对前几代人所做的那样。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、物理、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，在这些段落中，一系列思想家与阿维森纳就这些主题进行了接触。该项目已于2016年开始由发展基金提供资金，当时为计划的六年工作中的前三年提供了支助；我们现在正在申请资金，以支付剩余三年的费用。这将使我们能够制作三本英文翻译的原始段落手册，并将得到一个免费的在线数据库的补充，其中包括原始语言(主要是阿拉伯文、一些波斯文和叙利亚文)的相同段落。我们还出版了长达一篇文章的案例研究，传播我们对这一非凡但基本上未知的哲学时期的研究成果。因此，该项目将以前所未有的方式提供广泛的文本，向广大哲学受众展示这些被忽视的材料的兴趣，并为未来对伊斯兰世界更晚时期的哲学研究奠定基础。

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.