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The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries

Peter Adamson

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publish Date: Sep 25th, 2023
  • Pages: 740
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.10in - 1.56in - 2.64lb
  • EAN: 9789004503984
  • Categories: ReligiousIslam - GeneralMetaphysics

About the Author

Adamson, Peter: - 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.