Pseudo-Avicenna. Liber Celi et Mundi

Pseudo-Avicenna. Liber Celi et Mundi PDF Author: Oliver Gutman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004453628
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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A Critical Edition (together with introduction and English translation) of the Pseudo-Avicenna Liber Celi et Mundi, a Latin translation from Arabic of a paraphrase of Aristotle's De Caelo. It was translated in Spain in the later twelfth century, almost certainly by Dominicus Gundissalinus and Johannes Hispanus. The text circulated widely in Western Europe in the later Middle Ages, in collections of the early Latin translations of the Aristotelian corpus and of the Arabic commentaries. The Origins of the Liber Celi et Mundi are unknown but the editor suggests that the author may have been the prolific Arabic translator, Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq. This edition will be of particular interest to students of the Aristotelian tradition and the Arabic and Latin translators.

Pseudo-Avicenna. Liber Celi et Mundi

Pseudo-Avicenna. Liber Celi et Mundi PDF Author: Oliver Gutman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004453628
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Book Description
A Critical Edition (together with introduction and English translation) of the Pseudo-Avicenna Liber Celi et Mundi, a Latin translation from Arabic of a paraphrase of Aristotle's De Caelo. It was translated in Spain in the later twelfth century, almost certainly by Dominicus Gundissalinus and Johannes Hispanus. The text circulated widely in Western Europe in the later Middle Ages, in collections of the early Latin translations of the Aristotelian corpus and of the Arabic commentaries. The Origins of the Liber Celi et Mundi are unknown but the editor suggests that the author may have been the prolific Arabic translator, Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq. This edition will be of particular interest to students of the Aristotelian tradition and the Arabic and Latin translators.

Studies in the History of Culture and Science

Studies in the History of Culture and Science PDF Author: Resianne Fontaine
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004191232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 511

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Book Description
An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers studies on the history of science and on the role of science in medieval and early-modern Jewish cultures, investigating various aspects of processes of knowledge transfer and scientific cross-cultural contacts,

Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition

Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition PDF Author: Dimitri Gutas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004262075
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 649

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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

Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought

Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004685685
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Book Description
The Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many harsh critics. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays investigating Averroes’s complex reception, in different philosophical topics and among several Jewish authors, with special attention to its relation to the reception of Maimonides.

Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion

Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion PDF Author: Felicitas Opwis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004202749
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 509

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Book Description
This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.

Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy

Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy PDF Author: Nicholas Allan Aubin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111325083
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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"The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power." John Philoponus is remembered for using this Aristotelian premise to break ranks with Aristotle and argue that the world is not everlasting. This investigation reconsiders Philoponus’s arguments from finite power, and then explores the aftermath of this line of thinking in the works of three lesser-known Arabic intellectuals active in the generation before Avicenna (d. 1037): Abū l-Ḫayr Ibn Suwār (d. after 1017), Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī (d. 992), and Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī (d. after 1025). Each engaged with this dictum in unique and novel ways, and in so doing anticipated a number of central features of Avicenna’s writings. The history of this argument is of crucial importance for understanding the evolution of natural philosophy and metaphysics in this formative period, away from tedious and simplistic arguments about creation and towards a more robust modal ontology based on intrinsic and extrinsic necessity.

The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy

The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy PDF Author: S. Harvey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401593892
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Book Description
In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. The primary purpose of the conference was to explore and define the structure, sources, nature, and characteristics of the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. This book, the first to devote itself to the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy, contains revised versions of the papers that were prepared for this conference. This volume also includes an annotated translation of Moritz Steinschneider's groundbreaking discussion of this subject in his Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen. The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy will be of particular interest to students of medieval philosophy and science, Jewish intellectual history, the history of ideas, and pre-modern Western encyclopedias.

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Physics and Cosmology

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Physics and Cosmology PDF Author: Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614516979
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) greatly influenced later medieval thinking about the earth and the cosmos, not only in his own civilization, but also in Hebrew and Latin cultures. The studies presented in this volume discuss the reception of prominent theories by Avicenna from the early 11th century onwards by thinkers like Averroes, Fahraddin ar-Razi, Samuel ibn Tibbon or Albertus Magnus. Among the topics which receive particular attention are the definition and existence of motion and time. Other important topics are covered too, such as Avicenna’s theories of vacuum, causality, elements, substantial change, minerals, floods and mountains. It emerges, among other things, that Avicenna inherited to the discussion an acute sense for the epistemological status of natural science and for the mental and concrete existence of its objects. The volume also addresses the philological and historical circumstances of the textual tradition and sheds light on the translators Dominicus Gundisalvi, Avendauth and Alfred of Sareshel in particular. The articles of this volume are presented by scholars who convened in 2013 to discuss their research on the influence of Avicenna’s physics and cosmology in the Villa Vigoni, Italy.

Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy

Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy PDF Author: Hans Daiber
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047411692
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Book Description
Since the publication of the author ́s BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY in 1999 more than 3000 new books and articles in the field of Islamic philosophy, its Greek sources and its aftermath in European philosophy appeared and illustrate the increasing interest of the Islamic and the Western world. Philosophical thought as part of the Islamic culture became a medium in the dialogue between cultures and a tool for reflexion and methodology, which are indispensable for creativity and human behaviour. This supplement covers all new publications as far as they were available and could be included in the extensive index on authors, texts, translations and commentaries, and philosophical terms and concepts.

Interpreting Avicenna

Interpreting Avicenna PDF Author: Peter Adamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521190738
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Book Description
This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.