Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders

Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders
Author: Michael A. Rapoport
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2023-02-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004540628

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In Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders, Michael A. Rapoport provides a philological study of Ibn Sīnā’s (d. 1037) scientific explanations for phenomena related to the human soul in his most challenging and influential philosophical summa.

Ibn Sina’s Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics

Ibn Sina’s Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics
Author:
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231537425

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Al-Isharat wal-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980–1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human being, and the nature of things through a wide-ranging discussion of topics. The sections of Physics and Metaphysics deal with the nature of bodies and souls as well as existence, creation, and knowledge. Especially important are Ibn Sina's views of God's knowledge of particulars, which generated much controversy in medieval Islamic and Christian philosophical and theological circles and provoked a strong rejection by eleventh-century philosopher al-Ghazali. This book provides the first annotated English translation of Physics and Metaphysics and edits the original Arabic text on which the translation is based. It begins with a detailed analysis of the text, followed by a translation of the three classes or groups of ideas in the Physics (On the Substance of Bodies, On the Directions and Their Primary and Secondary Bodies, and On the Terrestrial and Celestial Souls) and the four in the Metaphysics (On Existence and Its Causes, Creation Ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation, On Ends, on Their Principles, and on the Arrangement [of Existence], and On Abstraction. The Metaphysics closes with a significant discussion of the concepts of providence, good, and evil, which Ibn Sina uses to introduce a theodicy. Researchers, faculty, and students in philosophy, theology, religion, and intellectual history will find in this work a useful and necessary source for understanding Ibn Sina's philosophical thought and, more generally, the medieval Islamic and Christian study of nature, the world beyond, psychology, God, and the concept of evil.

The Cambridge History of Medicine

The Cambridge History of Medicine
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2006-06-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0521864267

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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.

Aspects of Avicenna

Aspects of Avicenna
Author: Robert Wisnovsky
Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Pub.
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2001
Genre: Art and literature
ISBN:

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By addressing some of the most fundamental issues in Avicenna's psychology, epistemology, natural philosophy and metaphysics, this work aims to make Avicenna's thought more accessible to Latinists and Islamicists alike.

The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy

The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy
Author: Mehdi Ha'iri Yazdi
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791409473

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This book aims to present to western philosophers the most important theme in Islamic epistemology: knowledge by presence, the knowledge that results from immediate and intuitive awarenes, advocated by the author as a viable modern philosophical position. Treating the subject in a thoroughly philosophical manner that is comprehensible to contemporary analytical philosophers, he remains faithful to the Islamic tradition.

Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition
Author: Ahmed Alwishah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107101735

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Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.

Knowledge Triumphant

Knowledge Triumphant
Author: Franz Rosenthal
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9047410955

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In Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ('ilm), for 'ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.' There is no branch of Muslim intellectual and daily life that remained untouched by the all-pervasive attitude towards 'knowledge' as something of supreme value for Muslim being. With a new foreword by Dimitri Gutas.

Tradition, Transmission, Transformation

Tradition, Transmission, Transformation
Author: Ragep
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2023-09-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9004625747

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In this volume of conference papers originally presented at the University of Oklahoma, a distinguished group of scholars examines episodes in the transmission of premodern science and provides new insights into its cultural, philosophical and historical significance.

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics
Author: Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2011-12-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110215764

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Avicenna’s Metaphysics (in Arabic: Ilâhiyyât) is the most important and influential metaphysical treatise of classical and medieval times after Aristotle. This volume presents studies on its direct and indirect influence in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin culture from the time of its composition in the early eleventh century until the sixteenth century. Among the philosophical topics which receive particular attention are the distinction between essence and existence, the theory of universals, the concept of God as the necessary being and the theory of emanation. It is shown how authors such as Averroes, Abraham ibn Daud, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus react to Avicenna’s metaphysical theories. The studies also address the philological and historical circumstances of the textual tradition in three different medieval cultures. The studies are written by a distinguished international team of contributors, who convened in 2008 to discuss their research in the Villa Vigoni, Italy.

One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts
Author: Michael Friedrich
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2016-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110495597

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Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical objects. While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically are to be considered as production units, i.e. they were originally planned and realized in order to carry more than one text, composites consist of formerly independent codicological units and were put together at a later stage with intentions that might be completely different from those of its original parts. Both sub-types of manuscripts are still sometimes called "miscellanies", a term relating to the texts only. The codicological difference is important for reconstructing why and how these manuscripts which in many cases resemble (or contain) a small library were produced and used. Contributions on the manuscript cultures of China, India, Africa, the Islamic world and European traditions lead not only to the conclusion that "one-volume libraries" have been produced in many manuscript cultures, but allow also for the identification of certain types of uses.