TY - BOOK ID - 73001891 TI - Method, structure, and development in al-Fārābī's cosmology PY - 2012 VL - 85 SN - 01698729 SN - 9789004206151 9004206159 9786613530509 9004217320 1280126647 9789004217324 9781280126642 PB - Leiden DB - UniCat KW - Islamic cosmology KW - Cosmology, Islamic KW - Muslim cosmology KW - Cosmology KW - al-Fārābī, Abū-Nasr Muhammad. KW - Abū Nasr Muhammed ibn Muhammed ibn Tarhān ibn Uzlag al-Farabi KW - Alfarabius KW - Alpharabius KW - Fārābī KW - Muhammed Ibn Muhammed (Abu Nasir) al-Farabi KW - Islamic cosmology. KW - Fārābī. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73001891 AB - This study—the first monograph devoted exclusively to al-Fārābī’s cosmology—provides a new interpretation of this thinker’s philosophical development through an analysis of the Greek and Arabic sources and a contextualization of his life and thought in the cultural and intellectual milieu of his time. It discusses key cosmological and metaphysical concepts articulated in his works, with a special focus on celestial causation, intellection, and motion. This book also examines al-Fārābī’s cosmological method and particularly the connection between astronomy, physics, and metaphysics. The result is a reassessment of al-Fārābī’s cosmology vis-à-vis late-antique Greek philosophical trends and a clearer understanding of how it creatively adapted and transformed this legacy to establish a new cosmological paradigm in Arabic thought. ER -