Gerhard Endress

Gerhard Endress is Emeritus Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Northrhine Westphalia (Düsseldorf). His research interests include the intellectual history of medieval Islam, Arabic literature and especially the reception of Greek philosophy and science in the Arabic Islamic milieu.

Publications

  • Die arabischen Übersetzungen von Aristoteles' Schrift De Caelo. Frankfurt a/M 1966.
  • Proclus Arabus: Zwanzig Abschnitte aus der Institutio Theologica in arabischer Übersetzung. eingeleitet, herausgegeben und erklärt, Beiruter Texte und Studien, 10. Beirut, Wiesbaden 1973.
  • The works of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: an analytical inventory. Wiesbaden 1977.
  • Ed., with Remke Kruk: The Ancient Tradition in Christian and Islamic Hellenism: studies on the transmission of Greek philosophy and sciences, dedicated to H. J. Drossaart Lulofs on his ninetieth birthday. Leiden 1997.
  • With Dimitri Gutas, Rüdiger Arnzen: A Greek and Arabic Lexicon: materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic. Leiden 1992ff.
  • Commentary on Aristotle's Book On the Heaven and the Universe. Sharḥ al-Samāʾ wa-l-ʿālam by Ibn Rushd. Facsimile ed., with an introduction. Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Series C: Facsimile editions, vol. 57. Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Ed., with K. Braun: Averroes and the Aristotelian tradition: sources, constitution and reception of the philosophy of Ibn Rushd (1126–1198). Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Averroicum, Cologne, 1996. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: texts and studies; vol. 31. Leiden [etc.] 1999.
  • Der Islam: eine Einführung in seine Geschichte. München: Beck, 1982; ²1991; ³1997. Translations: English, Edinburgh 1988, ²2002; Italian, Venezia 1994; Greek, Athens 2004; Arabic, Beirut & Casablanca 2023.
  • 'Alexander of Aphrodisias on the First Cause: Aristotle's First Mover in an Arabic treatise attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias,' in: Aristotele e Alessandro di Afrodisia nella tradi­zione araba, ed. Cristina D'Ancona e Giuseppe Serra. Padova 2001, 19–74.
  • Ed., with Rüdiger Arnzen: Averrois Cordubensis commentum magnum super libro De celo t mundo Aristotelis, ex recognitione Francis James Carmody † in lucem edidit Rüdiger Arnzen, editioni praefatus est G. Endress. Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales: Bibliotheca. Leuven [etc.] 2003.
  • 'Mathematics and philosophy in medieval Islam', in: The Enterprise of Science in Islam: new Perspectives, ed. by Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra. Cambridge, Mass., 2003, 121–76.
  • Der arabische Aristoteles und sein Leser: Physik und Theologie im Weltbild Alberts des Großen. Lectio Albertina / Albertus-Magnus-Institut Bonn; 6. Münster 2004.
  • 'Die dreifache Ancilla: Hermeneutik und Logik im Werk des Sayf-al-Dīn al-Āmidī (1156–1233),' in Logik und Theologie: das Organon im arabischen und im lateinischen Mittelalter, ed. D. Perler, U. Rudolph. Leiden 2005, 117-45.
  • Ed., with Abdou Filali-Ansary: Organizing knowledge: encylopædic activities in the pre-eigteenth century Islamic world. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, vol. 61. Leiden [etc.] 2006.
  • 'Building the library of Arabic philosophy: Platonism and Aristotelianism in the sources of al-Kindī,' in: The Libraries of the Neoplatonists, ed. C. D'Ancona. Philosophia Antiqua, 107. Leiden [etc.] 2007, 319–50.
  • 'al-Kindī', 'at-Tauḥīdī', 'Miskawaih', 'Die Bagdader Aristoteliker', in: Philosophie in der Islami­schen Welt, Band 1: 8.-10. Jahrhundert, ed. U. Rudolph [a.o.]׃ Basel 2012. English ed.: Leiden 2017.
  • 'Ibn al-Ṭayyib's Arabic Version and Commentary of Aristotle's De Caelo.' Studia Graeco-Arabica, 7 ( 2017): 213–75.
  • 'The Truth does not Contradict the Truth — Or Does It? The Aporias of Cosmology, or Averroes In Doubt,' Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 22 (2020): 1–46.
  • With Pieter Sjoerd Hasper: 'The Arabic tradition of Aristotle's Sophistici Elenchi,' Studia Graeco-Arabica,' 10 (2020): 59–110.
  • 'Philosophy as Literature: Appraisal, Defense, and Satire of Rational Thought in Classical Arabic Poetry and Prose, in: The Popularization of Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, ed. Steven Harvey [u.a.]. Turnhout 2021, 37–60.
  • With Marc Geofffroy et al.: 'Ibn Rušd.' In: Philosophie in der Islami­schen Welt, Band 2/2: 11.–12. Jahrhundert, westliche Gebiete. hrsg. von U. Rudolph et al. Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie, begr. von Friedrich Ueber­weg, neu bearb. Ausg. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2025.