Language between God and the Poets by Key, Alexander -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Note on Translation Practice, Transliterations, and Footnotes Opening Statement 1. Contexts

The Eleventh Century The Four Scholars

Ar-Rāġib Ibn Fūrak Ibn Sīnā Al-Ǧurǧānī

The Madrasa

2. Precedents

In Translation from Greek In Book Titles In the Arabic Dictionary In the Opening Sentence of the First Arabic Book In a Work of Lexical Theory Adherents of laf ẓ, Adherents of maʿnā, and the Pursuit of ḥaqīqah

Literary Criticism Politics and Society Linguistics Theology

Theologians (Muʿammar)

3. Translation

Language Use (Wittgenstein) Core Conceptual Vocabulary (Kuhn) Maʿnā1, maʿnā2, maʿnā3, maʿnā4

Two Distinct Lexemes Four General Headings Intrinsic Causal Determinants Entities and Entitative Attributes Divergent Concepts A Grid of Principles and Contexts Laf ẓ1–3 and maʿnā1–3 Meaning

The Distraction of the Sign (Saussure) Homonymy or Polysemy? Folk Theory or Technical Terminology?

4. The Lexicon

Principles (al-uṣūl) Intent Name, Named, and Naming (ism, musammā, tasmiyah) Accuracy and Beyond (ḥaqīqah and maǧāz)

5. Theology

Framing Theology

Islamic Theology (ʿilm al-kalām) Relativism? Words or Things

Theologies Directed at the World

Language in ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār Atoms, Bodies, and Accidents with Ibn Fūrak

The World Connected to God

God’s maʿānī Acquisition (kasb) God’s Speech God’s Names Speech in the Soul (kalām nafsī)

Human Accuracy

Objective Truth Accurate Language about the World Accurate Accounts of Literature and Physics

Knowledge Is Everything Everything Is Knowledge

6. Logic

Ibn Sīnā between Greece and the West

Greece in the Arabic Eleventh Century The Arabic Eleventh Century and the West Translation in Three Directions (Greek, Latin, and Persian)

Mental Contents in Ibn Sīnā’s Conceptual Vocabulary

Mathematical Origins 159 Three Existences (triplex status naturae) Marks on the Soul (al-āṯār allatī fī an-nafs) The Lexicon Intent

Ibn Sīnā’s Mental Contents in Action

Being Is Said in Many Ways and pros hen Attributes (ṣifāt) Logical Assent (taṣdīq) First and Second Position (prima et secunda positio)

Aristotelian Philosophy Done with Arabic Conceptual Vocabulary

7. Poetics

What Is Good maʿnā? Self-Consciously Theoretical Answers in Monographs Poetics from Axes to Zones (aqṭāb and aqṭār) Syntax Time Lexical Accuracy (ḥaqīqah) Syntax (naẓm) Logic and Grammar The Grammar of Metaphor and Comparison (istiʿārah vs. tašbīh) Essence

8. Conclusion References