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The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sina) - A critical translation-commentary and analysis of the fundamental arguments in Avicenna's 'Metaphysica' in the 'Danish Nama-i 'ala'i' ('The Book of Scientific Knowledge') (Hardcover)
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The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sina) - A critical translation-commentary and analysis of the fundamental arguments in Avicenna's 'Metaphysica' in the 'Danish Nama-i 'ala'i' ('The Book of Scientific Knowledge') (Hardcover)
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In this book, first published in 1973, Professor Parviz Morewedge,
an expert on Islamic philosophy and mysticism, provides a critical
exposition of one text of ibn Sina (Avicenna), the great Persian
philosopher who lived from 980 to 1037. The text is his Metaphysica
in the Danish Nama-I 'ala'I (The Book of Scientific Knowledge). In
addition to a translation of the text from Persian into English,
this edition includes a critical commentary on the major arguments
found in the text, and notes and references to other texts of ibn
Sina as well as to relevant texts of Greek philosophers,
particularly Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus. There is also a
glossary of the key terms used in the Metaphysica, with their
Persian, Arabic, Greek and Latin equivalents where necessary. This
book is concerned primarily to show that although in the text ibn
Sina resorts to the Aristotelian vocabulary and Neo-Platonic
themes, and appears to be in accord with the Islamic tradition,
there is evidence that many doctrines expressed by him may be
considered non-Greek and non-Islamic. These include his peculiar
doctrine of Self (nafs) and the doctrine of the Necessary Existent
(wajib al-wujud). The author attempts to clarify the extent to
which salient features of ibn Sina's position are in agreement with
what may be regarded as Sufic doctrines.
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