Correspondence, philosophical

by Akasoy, Anna

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Scholars disagree about the existence and nature of a genre of philosophical correspondence in the Islamicate world and its history and purpose. In addition to actual exchanges of letters, philosophical literature sometimes captures a variety of viewpoints in the communication that occurs in debates. Such conversations often took place between teachers and disciples for didactic purposes, between colleagues and rivals in a dialectic spirit, and between rulers and philosophers as part of a court…

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Scholars disagree about the existence and nature of a genre of philosophical correspondence in the Islamicate world and its history and purpose. In addition to actual exchanges of letters, philosophical literature sometimes captures a variety of viewpoints in the communication that occurs in debates. Such conversations often took place between teachers and disciples for didactic purposes, between colleagues and rivals in a dialectic spirit, and between rulers and philosophers as part of a courtly ritual. While some interchanges are disjointed lists of questions and answers on a variety of topics,

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1706

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eng Islam

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Akasoy, Anna

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