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

Uh there are uh some exceptions to that.

So you find occasional engagements with Aristotle, even in the centuries right after Avicenna, and then there's an upsurge of interest in Greek texts.

Greek text in Arabic translation.

in the Safavid period in uh Iran.

So when we get to the time of Mulla Sadra, for example.

there's a lot more engagement with um what the uh what the translation movement had imported into the Arabic language from Greek.

But generally speaking

post-12th century philosophy is Avicennian philosophy in the Islamic world.

And by the way, just to go back to say one more thing about like how my picture differs from the traditional picture, effectively what I'm saying is that the traditional picture was caused by a kind of optical illusion where

people thought of philosophy as in the Islamic world as just whatever had been translated into Latin.

So they thought, okay, the philosophers we're interested in are gonna be Al Kindi, Al Farabi, Avicenna, Veroese, and then a few others, right?

Some Jewish philosophers as well, like Maimonides, because they were translated into Latin.

So this idea that philosophy in the Islamic world ends in twelve hundred is not a coincidence.

The reason why people think that is because that's when the Arabic Latin translation movement happened.

So it happened in obviously in the West, right, in Spain and Italy, and it happens around twelve hundred.

So if you if your texts are available in the Mediterranean,

uh if an Arabic philosophical text is available in the Mediterranean around twelve hundred, it can make its way into Latin and then it becomes kind of visible to the European tradition.

But if you're further east or you live too late, like you live in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth century, your work will never be translated into Latin because it's too late for that.

The translation movement's already happened.

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