Ibn Sina And His Influence On The Arabic And Latin World

Author : Jules Janssens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000298468

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Ibn Sina and his Influence on the Arabic and Latin World by Jules Janssens Pdf

This volume focuses on Ibn Sina - the Avicenna of the Latin West - and the enormous impact of his philosophy in both the Islamic and Christian worlds. Jules Janssens opens with a new introductory article, surveying the position of work in the field. The next studies look at Ibn Sina's work and thought, inspired by Alexandrian Neoplatonism on the one hand, and the Qur'an on the other, notably his views on the relationship between God and the world, within the context of Islam. There follow explorations of Ibn Sina's influence on later philosophers, first within the Islamic world and with particular reference to al-Ghazzali, but also, once translated into Latin, in the scholastic world of the West, on figures such as Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and above all Henry of Ghent.

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse,Amos Bertolacci
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110215762

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The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics by Dag Nikolaus Hasse,Amos Bertolacci Pdf

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.

Author : Frank Griffel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004307490

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Islam and Rationality by Frank Griffel Pdf

The second volume of Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī brings together twelve leading experts in the field of Ghazālī-studies who write about his thought and the influence he had on later Muslim thinkers.

Author : Avicenna,Ab? ?Al? al-?usayn b. ?Abd All?h Ibn S?n?,?Abd al-W??id J?zj?n?
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087395226X

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The Life of Ibn Sina by Avicenna,Ab? ?Al? al-?usayn b. ?Abd All?h Ibn S?n?,?Abd al-W??id J?zj?n? Pdf

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004262072

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Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition by Dimitri Gutas Pdf

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).

Author : Hannah C. Erlwein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110619560

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Arguments for God's Existence in Classical Islamic Thought by Hannah C. Erlwein Pdf

The endeavour to prove God’s existence through rational argumentation was an integral part of classical Islamic theology (kalām) and philosophy (falsafa), thus the frequently articulated assumption in the academic literature. The Islamic discourse in question is then often compared to the discourse on arguments for God’s existence in the western tradition, not only in terms of its objectives but also in terms of the arguments used: Islamic thinkers, too, put forward arguments that have been labelled as cosmological, teleological, and ontological. This book, however, argues that arguments for God’s existence are absent from the theological and philosophical works of the classical Islamic era. This is not to say that the arguments encountered there are flawed arguments for God’s existence. Rather, it means that the arguments under consideration serve a different purpose than to prove that God exists. Through a close reading of the works of several mutakallimūn and falāsifa from the 3rd‒7th/9th‒13th century, such as al-Bāqillānī and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī as well as Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd, this book proffers a re-evaluation of the discourse in question, and it suggests what its participants sought to prove if it is not that God exists.

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000246155

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Orientations of Avicenna's Philosophy by Dimitri Gutas Pdf

The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna’s historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the orientations of his thought. They deal with his life and works, his method, his epistemology, and his later reception in the Islamic world, ending with a programmatic essay on the state of the field of Avicennan studies and future agenda. Occasioned by issues raised in Gutas’s monograph on Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (whose second edition has just appeared), they form a substantive complement to it. For this reprint, a number of the essays have been reset and accordingly revised and updated. Provided with exhaustive indexes of names, places, subjects, and technical terms, the volume constitutes a new and major research tool for the study of Avicenna and his heritage.

Author : Ali Paya
Publisher : ICAS Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781904063575

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The Misty Land of Ideas and The Light of Dialogue by Ali Paya Pdf

Comparative philosophy, like other types of philosophy, is a sort of dialogue among philosophers. But whereas dialogue among philosophers in the traditional branches of philosophy is usually in the form of duologue, in comparative philosophy three interlocutors are involved. Participants in a dialogue of the type which is common in comparative philosophy need not be contemporaneous. Nor do they need to speak the same language or belong to the same tradition. Of the three interlocutors in a dialogue of the type relevant to comparative philosophy, the one who plays the role of the go-between among the other two is the true practitioner of ‘comparative philosophy’ or, to coin a term, the true ‘comparative philosopher’, i.e, the one who is actually engaged in the process of comparing philosophies and reflecting upon the finesse of the art of comparison of views. The comparative philosopher is an interpreter, a commentator, a critic, a connoisseur of good philosophical arguments and interesting ideas, an educator, and a communicator. This last characteristic pertains to the role the comparative philosopher plays vis-à-vis contemporary and future audiences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004290952

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Islam and Rationality by Anonim Pdf

Islam and Rationality offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism, and how his work was received by later Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars.

Author : John Marenbon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190246976

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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy by John Marenbon Pdf

This Handbook is intended to show the links between the philosophy written in the Middle Ages and that being done today. Essays by over twenty medieval specialists, who are also familiar with contemporary discussions, explore areas in logic and philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy and philosophy of religion. Each topic has been chosen because it is of present philosophical interest, but a more or less similar set of questions was also discussed in the Middle Ages. No party-line has been set about the extent of the similarity. Some writers (e.g. Panaccio on Universals; Cesalli on States of Affairs) argue that there are the closest continuities. Others (e.g. Thom on Logical Form; Pink on Freedom of the Will) stress the differences. All, however, share the aim of providing new analyses of medieval texts and of writing in a manner that is clear and comprehensible to philosophers who are not medieval specialists. The Handbook begins with eleven chapters looking at the history of medieval philosophy period by period, and region by region. They constitute the fullest, most wide-ranging and up-to-date chronological survey of medieval philosophy available. All four traditions - Greek, Latin, Islamic and Jewish (in Arabic, and in Hebrew) - are considered, and the Latin tradition is traced from late antiquity through to the seventeenth century and beyond.

Author : Jules L. Janssens,D. De Smet
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9058672093

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Avicenna and His Heritage by Jules L. Janssens,D. De Smet Pdf

Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, may be considered to be a major figure of the history of Arabo-Islamic philosophy, medicine and science. His influence was substantial and enduring, not only in the Islamic world, but also in medieval Christian-Latin and Jewish circles. This volume includes contributions of eminent scholars in very different fields of Avicenna's thought and influence. New insights are offered inter alia on the different ways of reception of his philosophy in the Islamic East or, more specifically, in Isma'ili thought, or in the great Shi'ite Iranian thinker, i.e., Mullah Sadra; on a recently--thus far unknown--treatise on ethics; on the phenomenon of pseudepigraphica related to Avicenna; on several innovative ideas in Avicenna's logic, physics, metaphysics and zoology; on the difficult issue of hendyades in the Avicenna Latinus; on Albert the Great's probable knowledge of Avicenna's Preface to the latter's opus magnum; on William of Auvergne's and Duns Scotus' critical use of Avicennian ideas in several aspects of their philosophy; on the significance of Avicenna for such particular doctrines as that of relation in Henry of Ghent or of evil in Thomas of Aquinas; on Avicenna's direct or indirect influence on medieval Jewish philosophy, and, more particularly, on Maimonides; on the place of Avicenna's medical thought in the Arabo-Islamic tradition and on the way it was dealt with in medieval Europe. Herewith, a serious basis is laid for a better understanding of Avicenna's thought and its spread.

Author : Celia Kathryn Hatherly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666904499

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Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual by Celia Kathryn Hatherly Pdf

According to Avicenna, whatever exists, while it exists, exists of necessity. Not all beings, however, exist with the same kind of necessity. Instead, they exist either necessarily per se or necessarily per aliud. Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments explains how Avicenna uses these modal claims to show that God is the efficient as well as the final cause of an eternally existing cosmos. In particular, Celia Kathryn Hatherly shows how Avicenna uses four Aristotelian arguments to prove this very un-Aristotelian conclusion. These arguments include Aristotle's argument for the finitude of efficient causes in Metaphysics 2; his proof for the prime mover in the Physics and Metaphysics 12; his argument against the Megarians in Metaphysics 9; and his argument for the mutual entailment between the necessary and the eternal in De Caelo 1.12. Moreover, Hatherly contends, when Avicenna's versions of these arguments are correctly interpreted using his distinctive understanding of necessity and possibility, the objections raised against them by his contemporaries and modern scholars fail.

Author : Daniel D. De Haan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434523

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Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing by Daniel D. De Haan Pdf

In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan examines the primary notions being, thing, one, and necessary and their roles in the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysical masterpiece.

Author : Avicenna,Laleh Bakhtiar
Publisher : Kazi Publications
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : UVA:X004913803

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The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna,Laleh Bakhtiar Pdf

Vol. 2: Published for the first time in English alphabetical order, vol. 2 (of the 5 original volumes) of "Canon of Medicine" (Law of Natural Healing), is an essential addition to the history of medicine as it holds a treasure of information on natural pharmaceuticals used for over 1000 years to heal various diseases and disorders. Fully color illustrated with a 150 page, 7000 word index of the healing properties of each of the entries, the text itself is an alphabetical listing of the natural pharmaceuticals of the simple compounds. By simple compounds, Avicenna includes the individual plants, herbs, animals and minerals that have healing properties. Avicenna lists 800 tested natural pharmaceuticals including plant, animal and mineral substances. The compiler has included the Latin, Persian and Arabic names of the drugs along with artistic renderings of the drugs as illustrations as well as Avicenna's Tables or Grid for each entry that describes the individual, specific qualities of simple drugs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004685680

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Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought by Anonim Pdf

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.