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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Pure Quiddity in Context -- Chapter II: Quiddity in Itself and Mental Existence -- Chapter III: Quiddity in Itself in the Concrete World -- Chapter IV: The Special Ontological Mode of Quiddity in Itself -- Chapter V: The Divine Origin of Pure Quiddity -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: The Avicennian terminology of pure quiddity -- Appendix 2: The existence of pure quiddity: A list of textual references -- Appendix 3: Quiddity and Avicenna's matrices of distinctions -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Technical Terms

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Damien Janos -- 1 The Syriac Aristotelian Tradition and the Syro-Arabic Baghdad Philosophers /John W. Watt -- 2 Palestinian Origenism and the Early History of the Maronites: In Search of the Origins of the Arabic Theology of Aristotle /Alexander Treiger -- 3 Some Observations about the Transmission of Popular Philosophy in Egyptian Monasteries after the Islamic Conquest /Ute Pietruschka -- 4 The Concept of ʿaql in Early Arabic Christian Theology: A Case for the Early Interaction between Philosophy and kalām /Orsolya Varsányi -- 5 "Active Nature" and Other Striking Features of Abū Bishr Mattā ibn Yūnus's Cosmology as Reconstructed from His Commentary on Aristotle's Physics /Damien Janos -- 6 Between Hellenism, Islam, and Christianity: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and His Controversies with Contemporary Muʿtazilite Theologians as Reported by the Ashʿarite Theologian and Philosopher Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī /Philippe Vallat -- 7 Theology as a Rational Science: Aristotelian Philosophy, the Christian Trinity and Islamic Monotheism in the Thought of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī /Gerhard Endress -- 8 What Does Tawḥīd Mean? Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī's Treatise on the Affirmation of the Unity of God between Philosophy and Theology /Olga Lizzini -- 9 Movement as "Discrete": Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī as a Source for the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ? /Carmela Baffioni -- 10 A Newly Discovered Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī Treatise against Atomism /David Bennett and Robert Wisnovsky -- 11 Aristotelian Cosmology and Causality in Classical Arabic Philosophy and Its Greek Background /David Twetten -- Appendix -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Subjects.

Al-Fārābī's writing on the Noble State from 942-43 had a formative influence on the history of philosophy in the Islamic world and can serve as a key to its knowledge. The philosophical conclusion is analyzed and explained in this volume by internationally renowned experts. In addition, there are chapters on life and work, philosophical background and history of impact.