"How do intellectual traditions interact? This is the fundamental question driving this book, which explores a case study set in the early Islamicate world: the Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians by the Christian-Arabic theologian and philosopher Yahya ibn 'Adi (d. 974). The book attempts to contextualise the treatise and its intellectual environment by exploring the interplay between philosophy, Christian theology and Islam. This volume includes a revised Arabic text ofSamir's 2015 edition, collated with the manuscript Tehran, Madrasa-yi Marwi 19, recently discovered by prof. Robert Wisnovsky"--
This book offers a fascinating case study of the interaction between Arabic philosophy and Christian Arabic theology, presenting a revised Arabic text of Ya ya ibn ?Adi’s 10th century Treatise on Divine Unity, accompanied by its first English translation and a running commentary.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Interpreting Early Arabic Christian Theology
Part 1
1 State of the Research
1.1 The life of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī
1.2 Studies on Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī
1.3 Previous Scholarship on the Treatise on Divine Unity
2 An Analysis of the Contents of the Treatise on Divine Unity
2.1 Title, Authenticity and Date
2.2 Topic and Purpose of the Treatise
2.3 The pars destruens: the Refuted Doctrines
2.4 The pars construens
2.5 The First Appendix, on the Public of the Treatise
2.6 The Second Appendix, concerning a Doubt and Its Solution
2.7 Overall Remarks: Philosophical Method and Theology
3 Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī’s Critique of the Philosophical Conception of the First Principle
3.1 The Unity of the First Principle in al-Kindī’s On First Philosophy and Its Reprise in Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī
3.2 The Second Appendix of the Treatise in the Light of the Theory of the Three States of Existence
3.3 Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī and al-Fārābī on Divine Unity
Final Remarks
Part 2
Manuscript Transmission and Editions of the Treatise on Divine Unity
Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī. Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians
Arabic Text
English Translation
Commentary
Bibliography
Index
Giovanni Mandolino, Ph.D. (2020), University of Padua, is a researcher at that same university. He has published editions and translations of Medieval texts, as well as several articles on Eastern Christian tradition and Arabic philosophy.
