A Comprehensive, Annotated, and Indexed Bibliography of the Modern Scholarship on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (544/1150—606/1210): (171 Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East)

The study of Islamicate intellectual history has witnessed a rapid growth of scholarship on post-classical thinkers and especially on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210 CE), one of the leading theologians and philosophers of his time. However, there is presently a lack of methodological tools and reference works in Rāzī studies. This book is the first bibliographical work entirely devoted to this thinker. It surveys the modern historiography on Rāzī from the nineteenth century onward and includes more than 1000 specialized entries written in European languages, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. The bibliography also provides a preface, an introductory essay, annotations to the entries, and various indices to help students and experts navigate the complex field of Rāzī studies.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Preface 1 Introduction  1 Life and Career of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and His Place in the History of Islamic Thought  2 A Survey of the Modern Scholarship on Rāzī  3 Recent Trends and Controversial Issues in Rāzī Studies  4 How to Use the Bibliography 2 Bibliography  1 Reference Works and General Studies  2 Life and Works, Corpus, and Intellectual Context  3 Studies on Rāzian Manuscripts  4 Encyclopedism and Classification of the Sciences  5 Linguistics, Grammar, and Nomenclature  6 Logic, Poetics, and Rhetoric  7 Physics and the Natural Sciences  8 Medicine and Biology  9 Astrology and the Occult Sciences  10 Mathematical Sciences and Music  11 Metaphysics  12 Psychology, Noetics, and Soteriology  13 Prophetology and Imamology  14 Ethics, Politics, and Practical Philosophy  15 Reason and Revelation, Epistemology, and Rāzī’s Method  16 Exegesis and the Qurʾānic Sciences  17 Jurisprudence and Legal Theory  18 Sufism, Rites, and Devotions  19 History, Doxography, Heresiography  20 Rāzī’s Influence and Students Index of Contributors to Modern Rāzian Scholarship Index of Subjects and Disciplines Index of Historical Figures and Authors Index of Works by Rāzī

About the Author :
Damien Janos (Ph.D. McGill University, 2009) was assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin (2016‒2018) and the University of Montreal (2018‒2022). He is presently conducting a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. He has published extensively on the metaphysics and cosmology of Fārābī and Avicenna and more generally on the history of Arabic philosophy and science. M. Fariduddin Attar is a PhD candidate at McGill University. His thesis discusses the reception of Avicenna’s emanation theory and cosmology by 11–12th century thinkers of the Islamic East (mashriq), especially Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.