A History of Islamic Philosophy, 3d ed. مقاله

That Majid Fakhry’s A History of Islamic Philosophy, first published in 1970, has been brought out in a third revised edition can be of no surprise to the many admirers of this most robust of scholars. As many of the theological questions raised by Islam’s key philoso phers, particularly those pertaining to free will, justice, rights, and responsi bilities, had political implications, each chapter in this book begins with a historical context. These questions would remain important for the following generation of thinkers, as Fakhry shows in the next chapter, which deals with the works of al-Kindi, Ibn al-Rawandi, and al-Razi. 67) and a greatly innovative thinker himself, al-Kindi was, as Fakhry demonstrates, Islam’s first systematic philosophical writer. In Fakhry’s hands, the complex ideas of the major Islamic philosophers and schools are made accessible to a wide audience without being unneces sarily simplified.