UID:
almahu_9949702610502882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047408710
,
9789004148994
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 63
Content:
This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle's Metaphysic s in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 C.E.), one of the major exponents of Arabic philosophy: the Ilāhiyyāt (Science of Divine Things) of the Kitāb al-Šifā' ( Book of the Cure ), known in the Latin Middle Ages as Liber de Philosophia Prima sive Scientia Divina. The first part of the book (on the Arabic translations of the Metaphysics , al-Kindī and al-Fārābī) introduces the discussion of Avicenna's reshaping of the epistemological profile of the Metaphysics in Part II (his account of the subject-matter, structure, method and role of metaphysics in the system of sciences) and the recasting of its contents in Part III. The present volume provides the first systematic comparison of the Ilāhiyyāt with the Metaphysics and a comprehensive account of this latter's transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifā' : A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2006 ISBN 9789004148994
Language:
English
