TY - BOOK ID - 30648533 TI - Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbahti : commentary on Aristotle De generatione et corruptione PY - 2015 VL - 19 SN - 9783110443646 3110443643 3110436809 3110444585 PB - Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Authors, Greek KW - Islamic philosophy KW - History KW - Aristotle. KW - Aristoteles, KW - Science - Early works to 1800 KW - Islamic philosophy - History KW - Aristotle. - De generatione et corruptione. - English KW - Aristotle. - De generatione et corruptione. - Arabic KW - Aristoteles, - 0384-0322 av. J.-C. KW - Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies KW - Philosophy, Medieval KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General. KW - Medieval philosophy KW - Scholasticism KW - Classical Studies KW - Ancient History. KW - Greek KW - Greek Authors. KW - History. KW - Arabic history. KW - edition. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30648533 AB - This book contains a new edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic and preserved to this day, together with an extensive commentary. It is a compendium on the treatise De generatione et corruptione, written by the Imamite theologian and heresiographer Hasan b. Mūsā al-Nawbakhtī (fl. ca. 900). To this day, apart from the title of more than forty works and numerous fragments-taken mainly from his magnum opus, the Book of the Doctrines and Religions (Kitāb al-ārā’ wa-al-diyānāt)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shî’î Sects (Kitâb firaq al-shî’a), was known to us. The text sheds new light in several ways: firstly, on the the Arabic philosophical tradition, since it was composed during the obscure period between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī (roughly, the 2nd half of the 9th c.); secondly, on the Greek tradition, since the author makes extensive use of Alexander’s lost commentary on De generatione; thirdly, on the formative period of shī’ism, since it helps us to reconstruct how the author borrowed from the Aristotelian tradition the tools necessary to build up a new anthropology compatible with the doctrine of the Occultation which he inaugurated at the time. ER -