Avicenna S Allegory On The Soul

Author : Peter Heath
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
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Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202229

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Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ) by Peter Heath Pdf

Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna's contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna's psychology and poetics and to the ways in which they influenced strains of theological, mystical, and literary thought in subsequent Islamic—and Western—intellectual and religious history. Heath begins by showing how Avicenna's writings fit into the context and general history of Islamic allegory and explores the interaction among allegory, allegoresis, and philosophy in Avicenna's thought. He then provides a brief introduction to Avicenna as an historical figure. From there, he examines the ways in which Avicenna's cosmological, psychological, and epistemological theories find parallel, if diverse, expression in the disparate formats of philosophical and allegorical narration. Included in this book is an illustration of Avicenna's allegorical practice. This takes the form of a translation of the Mi'raj Nama (The Book of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven), a short treatise in Persian generally attributed to Avicenna. The text concludes with an investigation of the literary dimension Avicenna's allegorical theory and practice by examining his use of description metaphor. Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna is an original and important work that breaks new ground by applying the techniques of modern literary criticism to the study of Medieval Islamic philosophy. It will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Islamic and Western literature and philosophy.

Author : Wilferd Madelung
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1784530883

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Avicenna's Allegory on the Soul by Wilferd Madelung Pdf

The Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (d. 1037), known in Europe as Avicenna, was arguably the greatest master of Aristotelian thought in the Muslim world. The symbolical 'Poem on the Soul' (Qasidat al-nafs), which portrays all earthly human souls as in temporary exile from heaven, is traditionally attributed to Avicenna, and was received with enthusiasm by its commentators. A highly significant commentary on the Qasida was written by ?Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid (d. 1215 CE), a major early representative of the Tayyibi Ismaili tradition, which emerged and flourished in medieval Yemen. In his view, the poem encapsulated Tayyibi beliefs, whose doctrines bear striking parallels with late antique Gnosticism. Avicenna's Allegory on the Soul presents the first edition of the Arabic text of Ibn al-Walid's commentary, 'The Useful Epistle' (al-Risala al-mufida), alongside an English translation and extended introduction. It offers invaluable insight into the intricacies of Muslim thought and a deeper understanding of Avicenna's substantial intellectual legacy.

Author : ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Ismailites
ISBN : 0755608925

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رسالة المفيدة في ايضاح ملغز القصيدة by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd Pdf

"I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (d. 1037), known in Europe as Avicenna, was arguably the greatest master of Aristotelian thought in the Muslim world. The symbolical Poem on the Soul (Qasidat al-nafs), which portrays all earthly human souls as in temporary exile from heaven, is traditionally attributed to Avicenna, and was received with enthusiasm by its commentators. A highly significant commentary on the Qasida was written by ?Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid (d. 1215 CE), a major early representative of the Tayyibi Ismaili tradition, which emerged and flourished in medieval Yemen. In his view, the poem encapsulated Tayyibi beliefs, whose doctrines bear striking parallels with late antique Gnosticism. Avicenna s Allegory on the Soul presents the first edition of the Arabic text of Ibn al-Walid s commentary, The Useful Epistle (al-Risala al-mufida), alongside an English translation and extended introduction. It offers invaluable insight into the intricacies of Muslim thought and a deeper understanding of Avicenna s substantial intellectual legacy."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Author : Wilferd Madelung
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857727626

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Avicenna's Allegory on the Soul by Wilferd Madelung Pdf

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (d. 1037), known in Europe as Avicenna, was arguably the greatest master of Aristotelian thought in the Muslim world. The symbolical Poem on the Soul (Qasidat al-nafs), which portrays all earthly human souls as in temporary exile from heaven, is traditionally attributed to Avicenna, and was received with enthusiasm by its commentators. A highly significant commentary on the Qasida was written by ?Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid (d. 1215 CE), a major early representative of the Tayyibi Ismaili tradition, which emerged and flourished in medieval Yemen. In his view, the poem encapsulated Tayyibi beliefs, whose doctrines bear striking parallels with late antique Gnosticism. Avicenna s Allegory on the Soul presents the first edition of the Arabic text of Ibn al-Walid s commentary, The Useful Epistle (al-Risala al-mufida), alongside an English translation and extended introduction. It offers invaluable insight into the intricacies of Muslim thought and a deeper understanding of Avicenna s substantial intellectual legacy."

Author : Avicenna
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547170334

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A Compendium on the Soul by Avicenna Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Compendium on the Soul" by Avicenna. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Avicenna
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019377747

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A Compendiun On The Soul by Avicenna Pdf

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.

Author : Whitman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004453593

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Interpretation and Allegory by Whitman Pdf

Western literary, philosophical, and religious traditions from Plato and Paul to Augustine and Avicenna have utilized, exploited, or been subjected to allegorical interpretation. Naturally developing a composite picture of interpretive allegory from such a large landscape faces numerous difficulties. As the editor puts it, “to imagine a ‘definitive’ account of the theory and practice of allegorical interpretation in the West would require something of an allegorical vision in its own right.” With that caveat in mind, however, the international team of contributors—from a variety of disciplines—offers a “historical and conceptual framework” for understanding interpretive allegory in the West, from antiquity through the early and late medieval and renaissance periods, and from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Adena Tanenbaum
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047404088

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The Contemplative Soul by Adena Tanenbaum Pdf

During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Andalusian Jewish poets introduced philosophical theories into their devotional verse. This study explores the impact of their rich intellectual and cultural life on their Hebrew poems devoted to the soul.

Author : Avicenna
Publisher : Kazi Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Islamic philosophy
ISBN : 1567441998

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Avicenna on the Science of the Soul by Avicenna Pdf

Avicenna writes this short synopsis on the soul as a gift for a Prince. Written around the year 1000 C.E., Avicenna Describes the soul as an immaterial substance that is known through its powers. According to him, it is the human rational soul that survives the body after death and is eternal.

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Composition (Art)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111039793

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Avicenna's De Anima in the Latin West by Dag Nikolaus Hasse Pdf

In the 12th century the "Book of the Soul" by the philosopher Avicenna was translated from Arabic into Latin. It had an immense success among scholastic writers and deeply influenced the structure and content of many psychological works of the Middle Ages. The reception of Avicenna's book is the story of cultural contact at an imipressively high intellectural level. The present volume investigates this successful reception using two approaches. The first is chronological, tracing the stages by which Avicenna's work was accepted and adapted by Latin scholars. The second is doctrinal, analyzing the fortunes of key doctrines. The sense of the original Arabic text of Avicenna is kept in mind throughout and the degree to which his original Latin interpreters succeeded in conveying it is evaluated.

Author : Rita Copeland,Peter T. Struck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521862295

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The Cambridge Companion to Allegory by Rita Copeland,Peter T. Struck Pdf

Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.

Author : Hawi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004661745

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Islamic Naturalism and Mysticism by Hawi Pdf

Author : Janne Mattila
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004506916

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The Eudaimonist Ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna by Janne Mattila Pdf

Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. Al-Fārābī and Avicenna are the two most influential authors of the classical period of Arabic philosophy, yet their ethical thought has been largely overlooked by scholars. In this book, Janne Mattila provides the first comprehensive account of the ethics of these important philosophers. The book argues that even if neither of them wrote a major ethical work, their ethical writings form a coherent ethical system, especially when understood in the context of philosophical psychology, cosmology, and metaphysics. The resulting ethical theory is, moreover, not derivative of their classical predecessors in any simple way. The book will appeal to those with interest in Arabic/Islamic philosophy, Islamic intellectual history, classical philosophy, and the history of moral philosophy.

Author : Henry Corbin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400859061

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Avicenna and the Visionary Recital by Henry Corbin Pdf

In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics. Henry Corbin's discovery in an Istanbul library of the manuscript of a Persian translation of and commentary on Avicenna's Hayy ibn Yaqzan, written in Arabic, led him to an analysis of three of Avicenna's mystical "recitals." These form an initiatory cycle leading the adept along the path of spiritual progress. In Part I Corbin summarizes the great themes that show the philosophical situation of Avicennan man in the cosmos and presents translations of these three great Avicennan recitals. Part II is a complete translation, with notes, of the Persian commentary. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401702294

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The Passions of the Soul in the Metamorphosis of Becoming by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

This volume is relevant to Islamicists, phenomenologists, comparatists, metaphysicians, philosophers of religion, and historians of ideas. This book is the first volume in a new and unique book series: Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue. The main aim of this series is to engage in a philosophical exploration, bringing back to the philosophical arena key philosophical issues presently forgotten.