Doubts on Avicenna - A Study and Edition of Sharaf Al-Dīn Al-Masʿūdī's Commentary on the Ishārāt

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.

About the author

Ayman Shihadeh, DPhil, Oxford, is based at SOAS, University of London. He has published widely on the history of medieval Arabic philosophy and rational Islamic theology, and is the Section Editor for Philosophy and Theology at the Encyclopaedia of Islam (BRILL).

Product details

• Authors: Ayman Shihadeh
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2015
• EAN: 9789004302525
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30252-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology a
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous