Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Translator’s Note xi
5. Interview 1
6. PART I GENERALITIES
7. 1. The Lessons of the Middle Ages 25
8. 2. The Meaning and Value of Philosophy in the Three Medieval Cultures 41
9. 3. Just How Is Islamic Philosophy Islamic? 57
10. PART II. COMMON THEMES
11. 4. Is Physics Interesting? Some Responses from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 73
12. 5. The Flesh: A Medieval Model of Subjectivity 91
13. 6. The Denial of Humanity: On the Judgment “Those People Are Not Men” in Some Ancient and Medieval Texts 107
14. Part III. COMPARISONS
15. 7. Three Muslim Views of the Christian City 121
16. 8. The Jiha¯d of the Philosophers 131
17. PART IV. FILIATIONS
18. 9. Inclusion and Digestion: Two Models of Cultural Appropriation, in Response to a Question of Hans- Georg Gadamer 145
19. 10. The Interpreter: Refl ections on Arabic Translations 159
20. 11. The Entry of Aristotle in Europe: The Arab Intermediary 169
21. 12. The Extra- European Sources of Philosophic Europe 175
22. PART V. PRICKED BALLOONS
23. 13. Some Mediterranean Myths 185
24. 14. Was There Any Dialogue between Religions in the Middle Ages? 193
25. 15. Geocentrism as the Humiliation of Man 203
26. 16. Was Averroes a “Good Guy”? 221
27. Appendix: Original Texts 231
28. Notes 235
29. Index 279