The Making of the Avicennan TraditionDavid C. Reisman
Author: David C. Reisman
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9789004125049
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The Making of the Avicennan Tradition
The Making of the Avicennan Tradition
Before and After Avicenna
Author: Avicenna Study Group. Conference
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9789004129788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Making of the Avicennan Tradition
Author: David C. Reisman
Publisher: Islamic Philosophy, Theology a
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume represents a new philological approach to the study of the medieval philosopher Avicenna by investigating the manuscripts and textual transmission of his philosophical correspondence with students and colleagues.
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition
Author: Dimitri Gutas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 9004262075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition
Author: Dimitri Gutas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-11
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9004451102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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).
Avicenna and His Legacy
Author: Y. Tzvi Langermann
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503527536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The centuries immediately following upon the monumental achievements of Avicenna (d. 1036) have been rightly characterized as a golden age of science and philosophy. Generation after generation scrutinized the Avicennan legacy, explicating and expanding upon the wealth of writings left by the master. Critical thinking in logic and astronomy, medicine and metaphysics spurred many new developments. This volume presents seventeen essays on Avicenna, his followers and his critics, many of whom are just now being introduced to western scholarship. The contributors to Avicenna and his Legacy include both established scholars as well as some of the best of the new generation.
The Classical Tradition
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-10-25
Total Pages: 1188
ISBN-13: 9780674035720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.
Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition
Author: Ahmed Alwishah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-17
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1107101735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.
