This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledg... more This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī was a Jacobite Christian theologian and philosopher born in 893 CE to a family of Syriac-speaking Christians in Tikrit, Iraq. After moving to Baghdad—at that time the flourishing intellectual and cultural capital of the Abbasid Empire—Yaḥyā studied under the scholarch of the Baghdad Peripatetics, Abū Bishr ibn Mattā (d. 940 CE), and alongside the influential Muslim philosopher and logician, al-Fārābī (d. 950 CE). Yaḥyā’s Risāla fī Ithbāt Ṭabī‘at al-Mumkin [Treatise on the Affirmation of the Nature of the Contingent] is his most extended treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. The thesis offers a historical contextualization and analysis of the treatise, focusing on Yaḥyā’s attempts to solve the problem of divine foreknowledge, a classical theological puzzle that attempts to force a choice between God’s omniscience and the reality of contingency. We argue that Yaḥyā offers a philosophically innovative solution that maintains the absolute immutability of God while denying the absolute immutability of His knowledge, while building upon earlier efforts by his late antique predecessors, such as Stephanus (d. 640 CE), Ammonius (d. ca. 526 CE), Boethius (d. 524 CE) and Iamblichus (d. 325 CE).
This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledg... more This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī was a Jacobite Christian theologian and philosopher born in 893 CE to a family of Syriac-speaking Christians in Tikrit, Iraq. After moving to Baghdad—at that time the flourishing intellectual and cultural capital of the Abbasid Empire—Yaḥyā studied under the scholarch of the Baghdad Peripatetics, Abū Bishr ibn Mattā (d. 940 CE), and alongside the influential Muslim philosopher and logician, al-Fārābī (d. 950 CE). Yaḥyā’s Risāla fī Ithbāt Ṭabī‘at al-Mumkin [Treatise on the Affirmation of the Nature of the Contingent] is his most extended treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. The thesis offers a historical contextualization and analysis of the treatise, focusing on Yaḥyā’s attempts to solve the problem of divine foreknowledge, a classical theological puzzle that attempts to force a choice between God’s omniscience and the reality of contingency. We argue that Yaḥyā offers a philosophically innovative solution that maintains the absolute immutability of God while denying the absolute immutability of His knowledge, while building upon earlier efforts by his late antique predecessors, such as Stephanus (d. 640 CE), Ammonius (d. ca. 526 CE), Boethius (d. 524 CE) and Iamblichus (d. 325 CE).
Course report for an introductory logic course, taken at a ḥawzawī madrasa in at Najaf, Iraq duri... more Course report for an introductory logic course, taken at a ḥawzawī madrasa in at Najaf, Iraq during the Summer of 2018.
This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledg... more This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī was a Jacobite Christian theologian and philosopher born in 893 CE to a family of Syriac-speaking Christians in Tikrit, Iraq. After moving to Baghdad—at that time the flourishing intellectual and cultural capital of the Abbasid Empire—Yaḥyā studied under the scholarch of the Baghdad Peripatetics, Abū Bishr ibn Mattā (d. 940 CE), and alongside the influential Muslim philosopher and logician, al-Fārābī (d. 950 CE). Yaḥyā’s Risāla fī Ithbāt Ṭabī‘at al-Mumkin [Treatise on the Affirmation of the Nature of the Contingent] is his most extended treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. The thesis offers a historical contextualization and analysis of the treatise, focusing on Yaḥyā’s attempts to solve the problem of divine foreknowledge, a classical theological puzzle that attempts to force a choice between God’s omniscience and the reality of contingency. We argue that Yaḥyā offers a philosophically innovative solution that maintains the absolute immutability of God while denying the absolute immutability of His knowledge, while building upon earlier efforts by his late antique predecessors, such as Stephanus (d. 640 CE), Ammonius (d. ca. 526 CE), Boethius (d. 524 CE) and Iamblichus (d. 325 CE).
This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledg... more This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī was a Jacobite Christian theologian and philosopher born in 893 CE to a family of Syriac-speaking Christians in Tikrit, Iraq. After moving to Baghdad—at that time the flourishing intellectual and cultural capital of the Abbasid Empire—Yaḥyā studied under the scholarch of the Baghdad Peripatetics, Abū Bishr ibn Mattā (d. 940 CE), and alongside the influential Muslim philosopher and logician, al-Fārābī (d. 950 CE). Yaḥyā’s Risāla fī Ithbāt Ṭabī‘at al-Mumkin [Treatise on the Affirmation of the Nature of the Contingent] is his most extended treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. The thesis offers a historical contextualization and analysis of the treatise, focusing on Yaḥyā’s attempts to solve the problem of divine foreknowledge, a classical theological puzzle that attempts to force a choice between God’s omniscience and the reality of contingency. We argue that Yaḥyā offers a philosophically innovative solution that maintains the absolute immutability of God while denying the absolute immutability of His knowledge, while building upon earlier efforts by his late antique predecessors, such as Stephanus (d. 640 CE), Ammonius (d. ca. 526 CE), Boethius (d. 524 CE) and Iamblichus (d. 325 CE).
Course report for an introductory logic course, taken at a ḥawzawī madrasa in at Najaf, Iraq duri... more Course report for an introductory logic course, taken at a ḥawzawī madrasa in at Najaf, Iraq during the Summer of 2018.
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