ABSTRACT
Much Islamic philosophy is not published in the ordinary journals which specialize in philosophy, nor by publishers who have philosophy lists. Publications in English are sometimes noted in The Philosopher’s Index, but this is not a good guide to the area. Far better for a whole variety of languages is the Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie (Louvain) which in three out of four issues a year contains a section on “philosophie arabo-musulmane”. For recent work there is the very useful “The Study of Arabic Philosophy Today” by Charles Butterworth, in the MESA Bulletin, 18 (July and December 1983), parts 1 and 2: 8–24, 161–72), which has also been published with an appendix covering 1983–7 in T.-A. Druart (ed.), Arabic Philosophy and the West: Continuity and Interaction (Washington DC 1988): 55–116, and the appendix (1983–7): 117–40. In the 1987 issue of the Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale (edited by the Société Internationale pour l’étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Louvain), 29: 24–47 G. Anawati published a “Bilan des études sur la philosophie médiévale en terre d’Islam, 1982–1987”, and this has been updated by Thérèse-Anne Druart and Michael Marmura in the 1990 edition of the Bulletin, 32, to cover 1986–9 (pp. 106–35). This is updated in Bulletin, 35 (1993). The best source of bibliographies on individual thinkers is in books dealing with them, but two important sources should be mentioned here. For Ibn Rushd (Averroes) there is P. Rosemann, “Averroes: a Catalogue of Editions and Scholarly Writings from 1821 Onwards”, Bulletin, 30 (1988): 153–215, and for Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) there is the masterly J. Janssens, An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sīnā (1970–1989) Including Arabic and Persian Publications and Turkish and Russian References (Leuven 1991): xxviii–358.
