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This volume represents a philological approach to the study of the medieval philosophy Avicenna by investigating the manuscripts and textual transmission of his philosophical correspondence with students and colleagues.

Philosophy, Islamic. --- Filosofie [Islamitische ] --- Filosofie [Mohammedaanse ] --- Islamic philosophy --- Islamitische filosofie --- Mohammedaanse filosofie --- Muslim philosophy --- Philosophie islamique --- Philosophie musulmane --- Philosophy [Islamic ] --- Philosophy [Muslim ] --- Avicenna, - 980-1037. - Mubåaòhathåat. --- Arabic philosophy --- Philosophy, Islamic --- Avicenna, --- Philosophy, Arab --- Islamic philosophy.

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This volume provides twelve essays on various aspects of Avicenna's philosophical and scientific contributions, approaching these topics from philological, historical and philosohical methodologies. The work is conceptually divided into four sections: (1) methodology, (2) natural philosophy and the exact sciences, (3) theology and metaphysics and (4) Avicenna's heritage. The First section provides considerations for distinguishing genuine from pseudo Avicennan works. The second section deals with topics encountered in Avicenna's physics, psychology, mathematics and medical theories. The third section treats issues ranging from the theological sources for Avicenna's proof for the existence of God and God's knowledge of particulars to the place of puzzles in Avicenna's Metaphysics as well as the relation of form and matter in Avicenna's thought. The final section considers Avicenna's historical influence on later thinkers such as al-Ghazali as well as his subsequent influence in Persia.

Philosophy, Islamic --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Islam and science --- History --- Avicenna, --- Islamic philosophy --- Arabic philosophy --- Muslim philosophy --- Philosophy, Arab --- Science and Islam --- Science --- Al-Hosain ben Abdallah ben Sînâ, Abou Alî --- Avicenna Latinus --- Avicenne --- Avicene --- Ibn Sīnā, al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allāh --- Al-Hoessein Ibn Abdoellah Ibn Sînâ, Abou Alî --- Avicenna --- Congresses --- Philosophy [Islamic ] --- Philosophy [Medieval ] --- Philosophy, Islamic - Congresses. --- Philosophy, Medieval - Congresses. --- Islam and science - History - Congresses. --- Avicenna, - 980-1037 - Congresses. --- Avicenna, - 980-1037

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Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of his philosophy. Contributions from leading scholars address a wide range of topics including Avicenna's life and works, conception of philosophy and achievement in logic and medicine. His ideas in the main areas of philosophy, such as epistemology, philosophy of religion and physics, are also analyzed. While serving as a general introduction to Avicenna's thought, this collection of critical essays also represents the cutting edge of scholarship on this most influential philosopher of the medieval era.

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical --- Avicenna, --- Avicenne, --- Philosophie islamique --- Philosophie médiévale --- Critique et interprétation --- Al-Hosain ben Abdallah ben Sînâ, Abou Alî --- Avicenna Latinus --- Avicenne --- Avicene --- Ibn Sīnā, al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allāh --- Al-Hoessein Ibn Abdoellah Ibn Sînâ, Abou Alî --- Avicenna --- Philosophie islamique. --- Muslim philosophers --- Islamic philosophers --- Philosophers, Muslim --- Philosophers --- Philosophie médiévale. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Avicenna, - 980-1037

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Following al-Fārābī’s approach, Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037) undertakes a new foundation of the First Philosophy based on his own critical systematisation of the Aristotelian theory of science, yielding the result that metaphysics is only possible as a transcendental science, id est that not only the subject-matter of metaphysics and its properties but also the arguments by which the first principles of knowledge are defended must be transcendental. This book provides the first systematic reconstruction of Ibn Sīnā’s concept of metaphysics, and, given the considerable influence his achievement had on the Islamic tradition as well as on scholastic philosophers, it is relevant to the study of the history of metaphysics, Islamic theology (kalām), and Arabic philosophy.

Metaphysics --- Islamic philosophy --- Avicenna, --- Metaphysics. --- Islamic philosophy. --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie islamique --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Philosophy of mind --- Arabic philosophy --- Muslim philosophy --- Philosophy, Islamic --- Philosophy, Arab --- Al-Hosain ben Abdallah ben Sînâ, Abou Alî --- Avicenna Latinus --- Avicenne --- Avicene --- Ibn Sīnā, al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allāh --- Al-Hoessein Ibn Abdoellah Ibn Sînâ, Abou Alî --- Avicenna --- Das Seiende --- Erkenntnistheorie --- Metaphysik --- Transzendentalphilosophie --- Avicenna, - 980-1037

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In Predication and Ontology A. Kalbarczyk provides the first monograph-length study of the Arabic reception of Aristotle's Categories. At the center of attention is the critical reappraisal of that treatise by Ibn Sīnā (d. 428 AH/1037 AD), better known in the Latin West as Avicenna. Ibn Sīnā's reading of the Categories is examined in the context of his wider project of rearranging the transmitted body of philosophical knowledge. Against the background of the late ancient commentary tradition and subsequent exegetical efforts, Ibn Sīnā's Kitāb al-Maqūlāt of the Šifāʾ is interpreted as a milestone in the gradual reshuffle of the relationship between logic proper and ontology. In order to assess the philosophical impact of this realignment, some of the subsequent developments in Ibn Sīnā's writings and in the emerging post-Avicennian tradition are also taken into account. The thematic focus lies on the two fundamental classification schemes which Aristotle introduces in the treatise: the fourfold division of Cat. 2 ("of a subject"/"in a subject") and the tenfold scheme of Cat. 4 (i.e., substance and the nine genera of accidents). They both pose the question of whether and how the manner in which an expression is predicated relates to extra-linguistic reality. As the study intends to show, this question is one of the driving forces of Ibn Sīnā's momentous reform of the Aristotelian curriculum.

Ontology --- Predicate (Logic) --- Aristotle. --- Islamic philosophy --- Avicenna, --- Categories (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Arab --- Greek influences --- Ontology. --- Being --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Al-Hosain ben Abdallah ben Sînâ, Abou Alî --- Avicenna Latinus --- Avicenne --- Avicene --- Ibn Sīnā, al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allāh --- Al-Hoessein Ibn Abdoellah Ibn Sînâ, Abou Alî --- Aristotle. - Categoriae --- Islamic philosophy - Greek influences --- Avicenna, - 980-1037 --- Arabic ontology. --- Arabic philosophy of language. --- Aristotle's Categories. --- Avicenna.