Peter Adamson

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New Books in Philosophy · Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3" (Oxford UP, 2019) · 16 Dec 2019 podcast

It would make more sense to call Thomas Aquinas a Christian philosopher than to call Avicenna an Islamic philosopher.

And people don't call Thomas Aquinas a Christian philosophy, they say medieval philosophy, usually.

Um and then but then there's actually a worse problem with the phrase Islamic philosophy, which comes to the last part of your question, which is that a lot of the figures I wanted to cover are either Christians or Jews.

And

The reason I needed to cover them is because their philosophical activities are intimately bound up with the history of philosophy in in among Muslims.

uh a couple of good examples of this would be that um there's quite a few Christian philosophers who first of all kind of make the

Reception of Greek philosophy into Arabic possible because they are actually the translators.

A lot of the translators from of Greek works into Arabic are Christian.

And then, especially early on, there are quite a few Christian philosophers who are involved and are even colleagues with Muslim philosophers, either either they're translators or they're philosophers or they're both.

So that's one case.

Another case would be Jewish philosophy.

V in under the sea.

There's a big section of the book, actually the second section of the book, which is about philosophy in Islamic Spain.

And I think actually most of or the majority of the figures I cover there are Jewish, not Muslim.

I mean I cover quite a bit quite a few Muslims as well, but I think there's probably more Jewish th thinkers in that part of the book than Muslim thinkers.

So this is responding to something that I found kind of um dissatisfactory about the way that

the historiography is usually done because what you usually find is treatments of medieval Jewish philosophy that are separate from treatments of medieval Islamic philosophy, if you want to call it that.

But that doesn't really make any sense to me.

So for example, if you wanted to name the philosopher who's most like Maimonides, who's the greatest Jewish philosopher,

You would probably name Al Farabi or

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