Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders

Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders

Author: Michael A. Rapoport

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-02-13

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 9004540628

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In Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders, Michael A. Rapoport provides a philological study of Ibn Sīnā’s (d. 1037) scientific explanations for phenomena related to the human soul in his most challenging and influential philosophical summa.


The Cambridge History of Medicine

The Cambridge History of Medicine

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-06-05

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 0521864267

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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.


Architecture and the Language Debate

Architecture and the Language Debate

Author: Nicholas Temple

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 131727119X

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This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the spectrum of linguistic disputes during this time – among members of the clergy, humanists, philosophers and polymaths – on issues of grammar, rhetoric, philology, etymology and epigraphy, and how these disputes paralleled and informed important developments in architectural thinking and practice. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material, such as humanist tracts, philosophical works, architectural/antiquarian treatises, epigraphic/philological studies, religious sermons and grammaticae, the book traces key periods when the emerging field of linguistics in early modern Italy impacted on the theory, design and symbolism of buildings.


The Burhān

The Burhān

Author: Mohammed Hijab

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-15

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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In The Burhān Mohammad Hijab analyses Ibn Sīnā's argument for the existence of God. Regards as being most invulnerable to any type of counterattack, Ibn Sīnā's Burhān argument postulates that a world with only contingent existences is inconceivable, as a contingent existence cannot cause itself. Ibn Sīnā argues that the only way to explain the existence of anything is to postulate the existence of a uncaused necessary being, or a wājib al-wujūd ('necessary existence'). However, despite its impact, the Burhān has not been packaged for apologetic use for a modern audience. Hijab's novel contribution to the discourse surrounding God's existence is found in his re-articulation of this argument for theists attempting to make the case for religion to atheist audiences. Using the Burhān as his guide, Hijab provides his own proofs for the necessary existence of God and answers some of the most prominent objections. Hijab applies the arguments for a necessary being by referring to potential pastoral and apologetic settings using two fictitious characters, Richard and Betty.


Doubts on Avicenna

Doubts on Avicenna

Author: Ayman Shihadeh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9004302530

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In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh offers an extended study and critical edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk, a key and hitherto unstudied source for twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. This text inaugurates the long commentarial tradition on Avicenna’s Ishārāt.


Aspects of Avicenna

Aspects of Avicenna

Author: Robert Wisnovsky

Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Pub.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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By addressing some of the most fundamental issues in Avicenna's psychology, epistemology, natural philosophy and metaphysics, this work aims to make Avicenna's thought more accessible to Latinists and Islamicists alike.


Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

Author: Ahmed Alwishah

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107101735

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Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.


Tradition, Transmission, Transformation

Tradition, Transmission, Transformation

Author: F. Jamil Ragep

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 9789004101197

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In this volume of conference papers originally presented at the University of Oklahoma, a distinguished group of scholars examines episodes in the transmission of premodern science and provides new insights into its cultural, philosophical and historical significance.


The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics

Author: Dag Nikolaus Hasse

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-12-23

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 3110215764

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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.


One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

Author: Michael Friedrich

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-11-07

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 3110495597

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Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical objects. While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically are to be considered as production units, i.e. they were originally planned and realized in order to carry more than one text, composites consist of formerly independent codicological units and were put together at a later stage with intentions that might be completely different from those of its original parts. Both sub-types of manuscripts are still sometimes called "miscellanies", a term relating to the texts only. The codicological difference is important for reconstructing why and how these manuscripts which in many cases resemble (or contain) a small library were produced and used. Contributions on the manuscript cultures of China, India, Africa, the Islamic world and European traditions lead not only to the conclusion that "one-volume libraries" have been produced in many manuscript cultures, but allow also for the identification of certain types of uses.