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Words, Texts And Concepts Cruising The Mediterranean Sea: Studies On The Sources, Contents And Influences Of Islamic Civilization And Arabic Philosophy ... His Sixty- (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) ReviewWords, Texts And Concepts Cruising The Mediterranean Sea: Studies On The Sources, Contents And Influences Of Islamic Civilization And Arabic Philosophy and Science Dedicated to Gerhard Endress on his Sixty-fifth Birthday edited by R. Arnzen, J. Thielmann (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta: Peeters) Excerpt: The present volume of the series Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta con¬tains studies and editions in honor of Gerhard Endress, Professor of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum since 1975. They are dedicated to a scholar who well deserves the credit for having revolutionized the study of medieval Arabic philosophy and science by combining painstaking investigations into its contents and historical development with meticulous systematic studies in its lan¬guage and terminology based, in turn, on a careful philological exami¬nation of its Greek and Syriac sources and the ways and modes of trans¬lation and transmission into Arabic. Gerhard Endress's fundamental studies in these fields have set landmarks for any future research through their masterful and well-balanced synthesis of profound doctrinal inves¬tigations, inimitable bibliographical richness and accuracy, and complex and demanding historical contextualization. Based on an exhaustive variety of methodologically reflected research instruments they form in their entirety what might be called a systematic archaeology of medieval Arabic philosophy and science. Apart from this immense service to our knowledge about Arabic philosophy and science it is due to Endress's research work that Graeco-Arabic Studies finally have emerged from their exotic and shadowy existence within the discipline of Classical Arabic Philology. Practised by a growing circle of scholars they are today a recognized epistemological instrument and prerequisite for any diachronic study in medieval Islamic intellectual history whose fruits and results fertilize not only other branches of Near Eastern Studies such as Arabic lexicography but also various allied fields of research such as studies in the history of philosophy and science or Classical Studies.
Despite his numerous and most influential works in these fields, Endress never lost sight of and scholarly interest in the whole range of historical, intellectual and cultural phenomena of Islamic civilizations, from their very beginning up to present-day developments. His minute and precise monograph on the history of Islam, translated into English and Italian and at present in its third revised German edition, has become a standard introduction to Islam providing a huge bibliography for research and academic teaching. As former students we know from our own (fortunate) experience that he taught, and still teaches, his students 20th century Arabic literature no less competently (and exactingly) than Classical Arabic or Syriac languages and grammars or medieval Persian poetry, the core curricula of Islamic theology and jurisprudence no less eruditely than the political and social history of 14th century Maghreb or colonial Egypt, not forgetting his famous slide-show supported lectures on Islamic arts and architecture.
It is the aim of this volume to mirror this immense versatility in a compilation of studies contributed by friends, colleagues, and former assistants of Professor Endress at the Bochum Department of Oriental Studies. It was the uniquely disciplined and serious manner, with which G. E. familiarized himself with nearly all facets and epoches of Islamic history including those far beyond his special fields of research, which guided us in our decision to leave the subjects of these contributions totally to their authors' choice. Being heterogeneous with respect to their topics and the modes of scientific approach, these contributions, never¬theless, form an overall unity by exploring the preconditions, lines of development and border-crossing effects of more than one thousand years of intellectual, social and political Islamic history. While some articles are intended to shed light on specific segments, problems or manifestations of this history that have been hitherto neglected, others emphasize the importance such historical developments may have for our present-day approaches to and concepts of Islam, while yet others contribute to our knowledge of this intellectual history by providing careful critical editions, translations or hermeneutic clues.
While there can be no doubt that the days of the classical `old Europe' polymaths of Oriental philology is over, this Festschrift is also intended to underline that extreme specialization narrowed by historical, cultural, methodological or language blinkers cannot be a reasonable alternative either. As is hopefully shown by the numerous points of contact, inter-section, and - in some cases thoroughly controversial - dialogue of the following 35 contributions, studies in Near Eastern languages, Arabic intellectual history and Islamic civilizations are still, if not even more so today, in need of the learned vol d'oiseau, in order to see the numerous important specific objects of research in their appropriate context, as well as of a methodical corrective only a holistic approach such as the one pre-dominant in Endress's studies can provide. The arrangement of the con¬tributions we have chosen here is, as a consequence, only one of various possible approaches. Others certainly would reveal other points of contact and intersection, and readers are invited to create (supported, as we hope, by the indices attached) their own appropriate re-arrangements.
Words, Texts And Concepts Cruising The Mediterranean Sea: Studies On The Sources, Contents And Influences Of Islamic Civilization And Arabic Philosophy ... His Sixty- (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) Overview"The remarkable extension in depth and width of Muslim intellectual life can be fathomed and measured only against the background of what went on immediately before, and simultaneously elsewhere, or it will remain, in any real sense, unexplored." This statement by the late Franz Rosenthal is, in a sense, the red thread of the present volume which unites 35 articles by renowned scholars of Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and various allied fields of research in honor of a scholar congenial to Franz Rosenthal and exemplary in his scientific carefulness and integrity: Dr Gerhard Endress, Professor of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. Central topics of the contributions include Arabic philosophy and its Greek sources and Latin reception, the history and historiography of Arabic-Islamic science, and Islamic concepts of language, knowledge, science and pedagogy. Other articles deal with qur'anic studies, Arabic lexicography and linguistics, the history of Middle Eastern civilizations, the medieval translation movements from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin as well as with political and eschatological theories of medieval Islam. Rooted in different scientific traditions and methodological approaches the studies collected in this Festschrift form a vivid and stimulating synopsis of more than 1000 years of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean intellectual, social and cultural history.

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