Christian And Islamic Philosophies Of Time (series In Philosophy) [Hardcover]

This volume constitutes an attempt at bringing together philosophies of timeor more precisely, philosophies on time and, in a concomitant way, historyemerging from Christianitys and Islams intellectual histories. Starting from the Neoplatonic heritage and the voice of classical philosophy, the volume enters the Byzantine and Arabic intellectual worlds up to Ibn Al-Arabis times. A conscious choice in this volume is not to engage with, perhaps, the most prominent figures of Christian and Arabic philosophy, i.e., Augustine on the one hand and Avicenna/Ibn Sina on the other, precisely because these have attracted so much attention due to their prominence in their respective traditionsand beyond. In a certain way, Maximus the Confessor and Ibn Al-Arabitogether with Al-F
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biemerge as alternative representatives of their two traditions in this volume, offering two axes for this endeavor. The synthesis of those approaches on time and history, their comparison rather than their mere co-existence, is left to the readers critical inquiry and philosophical investigation.