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Born in 980 in central Asia, Avicenna was a child prodigy who became a practicing physician and scholar in his teens.He was a unconventional, often unpopular pioneer in the formulation of many theories that centuries later would be proven correct. The books in this series would be best used by middle-school to high-school age readers and researchers.Includes: Timeline, Glossary, For More Information, For Further Reading and Bibliography. ... Read more

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This volume focuses on Ibn Sina - the Avicenna of the Latin West - and the enormous impact of his philosophy in both the Islamic and Christian worlds. Jules Janssens opens with a new introductory article, surveying the position of work in the field. The next studies look at Ibn Sina's work and thought, inspired by Alexandrian Neoplatonism on the one hand, and the Qur'an on the other, notably his views on the relationship between God and the world, within the context of Islam. There follow explorations of Ibn Sina's influence on later philosophers, first within the Islamic world and with particular reference to al-Ghazzali, but also, once translated into Latin, in the scholastic world of the West, on figures such as Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and above all Henry of Ghent. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Das Buch geht von dem heute angenommenen Stand der Wissenschaft aus: diePeripatetiker brachten eine Terminuslogik zustande, wahrend die stoische Logikeine Aussagenlogik war. Sie standen feindlich einandern gegenuber.Der Verfasser, mit Hilfe eines Textes Avicennas, wo er die Lehre derhypothetischen Syllogismen behandelt, versucht zu beweisen, dass auch diePeripatetiker eine, von der Terminuslogik nicht in jedem Hinblick losgelosteAussagenlogik hatten, und diese peripatetische Aussenlogik wurde under demNamen "hypothetische Syllogismen" in den griechischen Quellen erwahnt. Diezerstreuten Bermerkungen der Griechen uber die hypothetischen Syllogismenlassen sich im Lichte des Textes Avicennas in einem neuen Sinn deuten.Die klassischen/griechischen und lateinischen/ Quellen, wenn wir sie richtigdeuten, und wenn wir die versammelten Bruchstucke der Lehre richtigzusammenstellen, zeigten uns das ganze, von dem stoischen abweichende Systemder peripatetischen Aussagenlogik.Man kann aber nicht nur die ganze Theorie rekonstruieren, sondern auch dieGeschichte der peripatetischen Aussagenlogik, von Theophrast bis zu unseremJahrhundert. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 696 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An annotated bibliography on ibn sina: first supplement (1990-1994).(Review)
Author: Jon McGinnis
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2001
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 121Issue: 3Page: 535(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna's contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna's psychology and poetics and to the ways in which they influenced strains of theological, mystical, and literary thought in subsequent Islamic—and Western—intellectual and religious history.

Heath begins by showing how Avicenna's writings fit into the context and general history of Islamic allegory and explores the interaction among allegory, allegoresis, and philosophy in Avicenna's thought. He then provides a brief introduction to Avicenna as an historical figure. From there, he examines the ways in which Avicenna's cosmological, psychological, and epistemological theories find parallel, if diverse, expression in the disparate formats of philosophical and allegorical narration. Included in this book is an illustration of Avicenna's allegorical practice. This takes the form of a translation of the Mi'raj Nama (The Book of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven), a short treatise in Persian generally attributed to Avicenna.

The text concludes with an investigation of the literary dimension Avicenna's allegorical theory and practice by examining his use of description metaphor. Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna is an original and important work that breaks new ground by applying the techniques of modern literary criticism to the study of Medieval Islamic philosophy. It will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Islamic and Western literature and philosophy.

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Winner of The Iranian World Prize for the Book of the Year 2007 in the Philosophy and Mysticism category.

This new and original text provides a timely re-examination of Islamic thought, presenting a stark contrast to the more usual conservative view.

The explanation of the relationship between God and humans, as portrayed in Islam, is often influenced by the images of God and of human beings which theologians, philosophers and mystics have in mind. The early period of Islam reveals a diversity of interpretations of this relationship. Elkaisy-Friemuth discusses the view of three scholars from the tenth and eleventh century: Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali, which introduce three different approaches of looking at the relationship between God and Humans.

God and Humans in Islamic Thought attempts to shed light on an important side of medieval rational thought in demonstrating its significance in forming the basis of an understanding of the nature of God, the nature of human beings and the construction of different bridges between them.

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This digital document is an article from Islam & Science, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2147 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ibn Sina--Al-Biruni correspondence.
Author: Rafik Berjak
Publication: Islam & Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 3Issue: 2Page: 166(5)

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Avicenna, perhaps the greatest of Persian thinkers, presents his views on theology and his attempt to reconcile philosophical theory with Islamic dogma. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Islam & Science, published by Center for Islam & Science on December 22, 2009. The length of the article is 9278 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Keywords: Ibn Sina, Islamic cosmology, geocentric universe, multiverses, cosmic motion, celestial spheres, celestial bodies, celestial intelligences.

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Title: The universe as a system: Ibn Sina's cosmology revisited.(Critical essay)
Author: Syamsuddin Arif
Publication: Islam & Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: Center for Islam & Science
Volume: 7Issue: 2Page: 127(19)

Article Type: Critical essay

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