The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries
Metaphysics and Theology
Peter Adamson & Fedor Benevich
The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries
Metaphysics and Theology
Peter Adamson & Fedor Benevich
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English
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Description
This is the first of several sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna in the Islamic East in the 12th-13th centuries CE. It translates and analyzes hundreds of passages on topics like existence, universals, free will, and proofs of God.
Peter Adamson, Ph.D. (2000), University of Notre Dame, is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU Munich. He has published monographs on the philosophers al-Kindī and al-Rāzī and edited many books, including Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Fedor Benevich, Ph.D. (2016), LMU Munich, is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Essentialität und Notwendigkeit: Avicenna und die Aristotelische Tradition (Brill 2018) as well as of multiple articles and chapters on Avicenna, post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy, and kalām.
Peter Adamson, Ph.D. (2000), University of Notre Dame, is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU Munich. He has published monographs on the philosophers al-Kindī and al-Rāzī and edited many books, including Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Fedor Benevich, Ph.D. (2016), LMU Munich, is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Essentialität und Notwendigkeit: Avicenna und die Aristotelische Tradition (Brill 2018) as well as of multiple articles and chapters on Avicenna, post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy, and kalām.