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Book Synopsis Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam by : Jon McGinnis
Download or read book Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam written by Jon McGinnis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work treats various aspects of Avicennan philosophy and science. The topics include methods for establishing an authentic Avicenna corpus, natural philosophy and science, theology and metaphysics and Avicenna's subsequent historical influence.
Book Synopsis Interpreting Avicenna by : Peter Adamson
Download or read book Interpreting Avicenna written by Peter Adamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.
Book Synopsis Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition by : Dimitri Gutas
Download or read book Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition written by Dimitri Gutas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second, revised and updated, edition of this foundational work introducing a reading of Avicenna's philosophical works that is consistent with his intention and purpose in philosophy. Its usefulness is enhanced with a new appendix offering a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works that incorporates and updates Mahdavi (1954).
Book Synopsis Avicenna in Medieval Hebrew Translation by : Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin
Download or read book Avicenna in Medieval Hebrew Translation written by Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin offers an analysis of the fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of a major eleventh-century philosophical text: Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Najāt (The Book of Salvation), focusing on the psychology treatise on physics. The translator of this work was Ṭodros Ṭodrosi, the main Hebrew translator of Avicenna’s philosophical writings. This study includes a critical edition of Ṭodrosi’s translation, based on two manuscripts as compared to the Arabic edition (Cairo, 1938), and an appendix featuring the section on metaphysics. By analyzing Ṭodrosi’s language and terminology and making his Hebrew translation available for the first time, Berzin’s study will help enable scholars to trace the borrowings from Todrosi’s translations in Jewish sources, shedding light on the transmission and impact of Avicenna’s philosophy.
Download or read book Avicenna written by Jon McGinnis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibn Sina (980-1037), known as Avicenna in Latin, played a considerable role in the development of both Eastern and Western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics, theology, and even medicine were vast. His work was to have a significant impact on Thomas Aquinas, among others, who explicitly and frequently drew upon the ideas of his Muslim predecessor. Avicenna also affected the thinking of the great Islamic theologian al-Ghazali, who asserted that if one could show the incoherence of Avicenna's thought, then one would have demonstrated the incoherence of philosophy in general. But Avicenna's influence is not confined to the medieval period. His logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics are still taught in the Islamic world as living philosophy, and many contemporary Catholic and evangelical Christian philosophers continue to encounter his ideas through Aquinas's work. Using a small handful of novel insights, Avicenna not only was able to address a host of issues that had troubled earlier philosophers in both the ancient Hellenistic and medieval Islamic worlds, but also fundamentally changed the direction of philosophy, in the Islamic East as well as in Jewish and Christian milieus. Despite Avicenna's important place in the history of ideas, there has been no single volume that both recognizes the complete range of his intellectual activity and provides a rigorous analysis of his philosophical thinking. This book fills that need. In Avicenna Jon McGinnis provides a general introduction to the thinker's intellectual system and offers a careful philosophical analysis of major aspects of his work in clear prose that will be accessible to students as well as to specialists in Islamic studies, philosophy, and the history of science.
Book Synopsis Avicenna's Theory of Science by : Riccardo Strobino
Download or read book Avicenna's Theory of Science written by Riccardo Strobino and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avicenna is the most influential figure in the intellectual history of the Islamic world. This book is the first comprehensive study of his theory of science, which profoundly shaped his philosophical method and indirectly influenced philosophers and theologians not only in the Islamic world but also throughout Christian Europe and the medieval Jewish tradition. A sophisticated interpreter of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, Avicenna took on the ambitious task of reorganizing Aristotelian philosophy of science into an applicable model of scientific reasoning, striving to identify conditions of certainty for scientific assertions and conditions of adequacy for real definitions. Riccardo Strobino combines philosophical and textual analysis to explore the scope and nature of Avicenna’s contributions to the logic of scientific reasoning in his effort to recalibrate Aristotle’s model and overcome some of its internal limitations. Focusing on a broad array of philosophical innovations at the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and epistemology, this book casts light on an essential aspect of the thought of the preeminent philosopher and physician of the Islamic world.
Book Synopsis Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition by : Dimitri Gutas
Download or read book Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition written by Dimitri Gutas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by delineating the approach most consistent with Avicenna's intention and purpose in philosophy. The second edition of this foundational work, which has quickened fruitful research into the philosopher in the last quarter century, is completely revised and updated, and adds a new final chapter summarizing Avicenna's philosophical project. It is also enlarged with the addition of a new appendix which offers a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works, updating the work of Mahdavi (1954) with additional information on all manuscripts and important editions and translations. Its usefulness enhanced, the book provides primary orientation to Avicenna's philosophy and works and constitutes an indispensable research tool for their study. Winner of the I. R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2014
Book Synopsis Interpreting Avicenna by : Avicenna Study Group. Conference
Download or read book Interpreting Avicenna written by Avicenna Study Group. Conference and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work treats various aspects of Avicennan philosophy and science. The topics include methods for establishing an authentic Avicenna corpus, natural philosophy and science, theology and metaphysics and Avicenna's subsequent historical influence.
Book Synopsis Before and After Avicenna by : Avicenna Study Group. Conference
Download or read book Before and After Avicenna written by Avicenna Study Group. Conference and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers addresses a variety of aspects of the life and thought of the medieval philosopher Avicenna including his reception of Classical philosophy, his views on topics such as metaphysics, psychology and medicine, and the recpeption of his thought by later authors.
Book Synopsis The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosphy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries: Metaphysics and Theology by : Peter Adamson
Download or read book The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosphy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries: Metaphysics and Theology written by Peter Adamson and published by Islamicate Intellectual Histor. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of several sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna in the Islamic East in the 12th-13th centuries CE. It translates and analyzes hundreds of passages on topics like existence, universals, free will, and proofs of God.
Book Synopsis Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroës by : Catarina Carriço Marques de Moura Belo
Download or read book Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroës written by Catarina Carriço Marques de Moura Belo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the issue of determinism in Avicenna and Averroes through an analysis of their views on chance, matter and divine providence. It sets the debate against the philosophical/historical background of Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism and Islamic theology.
Book Synopsis Interpreting Averroes by : Peter Adamson
Download or read book Interpreting Averroes written by Peter Adamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages with all aspects of Averroes' philosophy, from his thinking on Aristotle to his influence on Islamic law.
Book Synopsis Avicenna's Al-Shifā' by : Sari Nusseibeh
Download or read book Avicenna's Al-Shifā' written by Sari Nusseibeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the philosophy of Ibn Sina - Avicenna as he was known in the Latin West- a Persian Muslim who lived in the eleventh century, considered one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy. Although much has been written about Avicenna, and especially about his major philosophical work, Al-Shifa, this book presents the rationalist Avicenna in an entirely new light, showing him to have presented a theory where our claims of knowledge about the world are in effect just that, claims, and must therefore be underwritten by our faith in God. His project enlists arguments in psychology as well as in language and logic. In a sense, the ceiling he puts on the reach of reason can be compared with later rationalists in the Western tradition, from Descartes to Kant –though, unlike Descartes, he does not deem it necessary to reconstruct his theory of knowledge via a proof of the existence of God. Indeed, Avicenna’s theory presents the concept of God as being necessarily presupposed by our theory of knowledge, and God as the Necessary Being who is presupposed by an existing world where nothing of itself is what it is by an intrinsic nature, and must therefore be as it is due to an external cause. The detailed and original analysis of Avicenna’s work here is presented as what he considered to be his own, or ‘oriental’ philosophy. Presenting an innovative interpretation of Avicenna’s thought, this book will appeal to scholars working on classical Islamic philosophy, kalām and the History of Logic.
Book Synopsis Struggling with the Philosopher by : Muhammad al-Shahrastani
Download or read book Struggling with the Philosopher written by Muhammad al-Shahrastani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Muhammad b. Abd al-Karim al-Shahrastani was one of the most learned and enigmatic scholars of medieval Islam. In his work, 'Kitab al-Musara'a' ('Struggling with the Philosopher'), which is published here in English translation (together with its original Arabic text) for the first time, al-Shahrastani gives a detailed critique of the metaphysics of the great Persian philosopher Avicenna. The greater part of his 'intellectual wrestling match' ('musara'a') is devoted to refuting Avicenna's interpretation of the 'Necessary Being' which, he argues, compromises the absolute transcendence of God. For al-Shahrastani, God is beyond human comprehension and above all opposites such as existence and non-existence, unity and multiplicity, good and evil, or truth and falsehood. This work is a strong indication of the rich diversity and eclecticism that characterised intellectual discourse in medieval Islam. 'Struggling with the Philosopher' is an important document of Islamic intellectual history. As such, it is essential reading and a reference text for students of Islamic studies and scholars interested in the medieval Islamic world.
Book Synopsis A Compendiun On The Soul by : Avicenna
Download or read book A Compendiun On The Soul written by Avicenna and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the famous Persian philosopher Avicenna, A Compendium on the Soul is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Exploring the nature of the human soul and its relationship to the body, Avicenna offers a subtle and nuanced account of the mysteries of consciousness and the human condition. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Avicenna written by Lenn Evan Goodman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran.
Book Synopsis Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna by : Mohammad Azadpur
Download or read book Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna written by Mohammad Azadpur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna. This discourse has two main objectives: (1) providing an interpretation of Avicenna’s epistemology that avoids reading him as a precursor to British empiricists or as a full-fledged emanatist and (2) bringing light to the importance of Avicenna’s account of experience to relevant contemporary Anglo-American discussions in epistemology and metaphysics. These two objectives are interconnected. Anglo-American philosophy provides the framework for a novel reading of Avicenna on knowledge and reality, and the latter, in turn, contributes to adjusting some aspects of the former. Advancing the Avicennian perspective on contemporary analytic discourse, this volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and metaphysics as well as Islamic philosophy.
