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Avicenna, 'The Healing, Logic: Isagoge' - A New Edition, English Translation and Commentary of the Kitab al-Mad al of Avicenna's Kitab al-Sifa

English, Arab · Hardback

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This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitab al-Mad al, which opens Avicenna's (d. 1037) most comprehensive summa of Peripatetic philosophy, namely the Kitab al-Sifa . For the first time, the text is established together with a stemma codicum showing the genealogical relations among 34 manuscripts, the twelfth-century Latin translation, and the literal quotations by Avicenna's first and second-generation students. In this book, Avicenna's reappraisal of Porphyry's Isagoge is examined from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. The key-features of Avicenna's theory of predicables are analyzed in the General Introduction and in the Commentary both in their own right and against the background of the Greek and Arabic exegetical tradition. Readers shall find in this book the first systematic study of the Mad al which, in addition to being the only logical work of the Sifa ever transmitted in its entirety both in Arabic and in Latin, is crucial for understanding Avicenna's conception of universal predicables at the crossroads between logic and metaphysics.

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Authors Avicenna, Silvia Di Vincenzo
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English, Arab
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2021
 
EAN 9783110726688
ISBN 978-3-11-072668-8
No. of pages 420
Dimensions 184 mm x 37 mm x 243 mm
Weight 1241 g
Illustrations 24 b/w ill., 33 b/w tbl.
Series Scientia Graeco-Arabica
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity

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