Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004503994
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Book Synopsis The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries by : Peter Adamson
Download or read book The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries written by Peter Adamson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Avicenna was the dominant philosophical authority in this period, who provoked generations of thinkers to subtle critique, defense, and development of his ideas. The series will translate and analyze hundreds of passages from works by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, and many more. This volume focuses especially on issues in metaphysics, dealing with topics like the essence-existence distinction, the problem of universals, free will and determinism, Platonic Forms, good and evil, proofs of God’s existence, and the relationship between philosophy and theology.