Introduction
Part One: Post-Classical Philosophy In Its Islamic Context
First Chapter: Khorasan, the Birthplace of Post-Classical Philosophy: A Country in Decline?
The madrasa System
The Cities of Khorasan and Its Surrounding Provinces
The First Half of the Sixth/Twelfth Century: Seljuq Rule
The Second Half of the Sixth/Twelfth Century: Khwrazmshahs and Ghurids
Other Patrons: Qarakhanids, the Caliphal Court in Baghdad, and the Ayyubids in Syria
Second Chapter: The Death of as a Self-Description of Philosophy
Falsafa as a Quasi-Religious Movement Established by Uncritical Emulation (taqlid)
Falsafa As Part of the History of the World's Religions
Three Different Concepts of Philosophy in Islam
Hikma as the New Technical Term For
Third Chapter: Philosophy and the Power of the Religious Law
The Legal Background of al-Ghazali fatwa on the Last Page of His Tahfut al-falsifa
Persecution of Philosophers in the Sixth/Twelfth century
'Ayn al-Qudat's Execution 525/1131 in Hamadan
Shihbab al-Din Yahya al-Suhrawardi's Execution 587/1191 in Aleppo
Was al-Ghazali's fatwa? Ever Applied?
Part Two: Philosophers and Philosophies – A Biographical History of Philosophy in the Sixth/Twelfth Century Islamic East
The Principal Sources for Sixth/Twelfth Century History of Philosophy in the Islamic East
The Early Sixth/Twelfth Century: Avicennism Undisturbed
Avicennism Contested: The Early Decades of the Sixth/Twelfth Century
The Outsider as Innovator: Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi (d. c. 560/1165)
Two Ghazalians of Transoxania: al-Mas' udi and Ibn Ghaylan al-Balkhi (d. c. 585/1190)
Majd al-Din al-Jili - Teacher of Two Influential Philosophers Trained In Maragha
Al-Suhrawardi (d. c. 587/1192), the Founder of the "School of Illumination"
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1210) - Post-Classical Philosophy Fully Developed
Part Three: The Formation of ?ikma As a New Philosophical Genre
First Chapter: Books and Their Teachings

Al-Razi's "Philosophical Books" (kutub hikmiyya)
What Books of hikma Do: Reporting Avicenna
First Perspective: Teachings on Epistemology
What Books in hikma Also Do: Doubting and Critizising Avicenna
Knowledge as Relation: The Starting Point in al-Ghazali
Knowledge as Relation: Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi's Key Contribution
Knowledge as Relation: Developments in the Second Half
of the Sixth/Twelfth Century
Second Perspective: Teachings on Ontology and Theology
A New Place for the Study of Metaphysics Within Philosophy
Opposing Avicenna: God's Essence is Distinct From His Existence
What Books of ?ikma Mostly Do: Endorsing and Correcting
Avicennan Philosophy
Second Chapter: Books and Their Genre
The Eclectic Career of al-Ghazali's Doctrines of the Philosophers
(Maqasid al-falasifa)
Al-Ghazali as Clandestine faylasuf- Evaluating His Madnun Corpus
The Madnun-Corpus and Forgery-Two Pseudo-Epigraphies Attached to al-Ghazali
Between Neutral Report and Committed Investment: al-Mas 'udi's Commentary
on Avicenna's Glistering Homily (al-Khutba al-gharra)
Post-classical Philosophy and Tolerance For Ambiguity
Third Chapter: Books and Their Method
Dialectical Reasoning Replaces Demonstration: "Careful Consideration" (i'tibar)
in Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi
The Middle Way Between Avicennism and Ghazalism: How
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi Describes His Philosophy
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's Method of "Probing and Dividing" (sabr wa-taqsim)
A Case Study of the New Method: Al-Razi on God's Knowledge of Particulars
The Method in Books of hikma: Implementing the Principle of Sufficient Reason
The Method in Books of kalam: Limiting the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendices