Table of Contents (v) Abbreviations and Transliteration (ix) Frequently used abbreviations (ix) Transliteration (ix) Acknowledgements (xi) Preface (xiii) Introduction (1) 1. The Arabic Plotinus Texts and their Origin (5) 1.1. The Arabic Plotinus corpus (5) 1.1.1. The Theology of Aristotle (ThA) (6) 1.1.
2. The Letter on Divine Science (DS) (7) 1.1.3. Sayings ascribed to the "Greek Sage" (GS) (7) 1.1.4. The common Arabic Plotinus source (7) 1.
1.5. The nature of the paraphrase (9) 1.1.6. Skipping and re-ordering in ThA (12) 1.2. The origins of AP (17) 1.
2.1. The identity of the Adaptor (18) 1.2.2. The role of Porphyry (19) 1.3. Other texts related to AP (21) 1.
3.1. Early works related to AP (21) 1.3.2. The later influence of AP (22) 2. The Prologue and the "Headings" (27) 2.1.
The Prologue (27) 2.1.1. Sources of the Prologue: the Metaphysics and AP (30) 2.1.2. Al-Kindi as the author of the Prologue (35) 2.1.
3. The conception of philosophy in the Prologue (40) 2.2. The "Headings" (42) 2.2.1. The textual basis of the headings (43) 2.2.
2. The purpose of the headings (45) 2.2.3. Philosophical views in the headings (47) 3. Psychology and Ethics (49) 3.1. Aristotelian influence on the Adaptor's theory of soul (49) 3.
1.1. Mimar III and the question of entelechia (50) 3.1.2. Soul's relationship to body (55) 3.1.3.
AP and the Arabic paraphrase of the De Anima (63) 3.2. Ethical views in AP (69) 3.2.1. Virtue and the cosmos (69) 3.2.2.
Memory and the fall of the soul (75) 4. Language and Epistemology (85) 4.1. Strategies of predication (85) 4.2. Learned ignorance (88) 4.2.1.
The doctrine of mimar II (88) 4.2.2. A potency higher than act (94) 4.2.3. Porphyry and learned ignorance in AP (102) 4.2.
4. Dionysius and learned ignorance in AP (106) 5. Theology and Metaphysics (111) 5.1. Divine revelation (112) 5.1.1. Negative theology in AP (112) 5.
1.2. Positive theology in AP (115) 5.1.3. Predication by causality and eminence (117) 5.1.4.
Is the First Principle "complete"? (119) 5.2. God and being (124) 5.2.1. The terminology of existence (125) 5.2.2.
God as the "first being" and "only being" (128) 5.2.3. God as pure actuality and cause of being (132) 5.3. Creation (137) 5.3.1.
Mediated creation vs. unmediated creation (137) 5.3.2. Creation and time (142) 5.3.3. Creation and necessity (145) 5.
3.4. God and thinking (149) 5.4. The Adaptor's sources (155) 5.4.1. Plotinus, Enneads VI.
8 (157) 5.4.2. The anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides (159) 5.4.3. Pseudo-Dionysius, the Divine Names (162) 5.4.
4. The Mu'tazila (165) Conclusion: The Outlook and Idenrity of the Adaptor (171) Appendix: Al-Kindi's and the Arabic Plotinus (179) 1. Al-Kindi's method and the unity of his corpus (180) 2. Metaphysics and theology (182) 3. Psychology (193) 4. Astrology (197) 5. Conclusion (204) Notes (207) Bibliography (229) Index (237).