Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam

The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on the text and terminology of Graeco-Arabic translations and the terminology of early kalam. Other articles deal with Islamic theology and its early development, especially in its relation to philosophy. The collection is prefaced by a autobiographical memoir which traces the intellectual development of the author.