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Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle "De generatione et corruptione" - Edition, Translation and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle "De generatione et corruptione" - Edition, Translation and Commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica
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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. Musa al-Nawbakhti
(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 (Kitab al-ara'
wa-al-diyanat)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shi'i
Sects (Kitab firaq al-shi'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-Kindi and al-Farabi (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 shi'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.
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