The philosopher and physician Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abdallah ibn
Sina (d. 1037 C.E.), known in the West by his Latinized name
Avicenna, was one of the most influential thinkers of the Islamic
and European Middle Ages. Yet for a great number of scholars today
Avicenna's thought remains inaccessible. Because he wrote almost
all his works in Arabic, Avicenna seems remote to historians of
medieval European philosophy who are able to read only the Latin
translations of those works. And because he expresses his subtle
and complex ideas in the technical terminology of Aristotelianism
and Neoplatonism, Avicenna seems remote to Islamicists who have
little or no background in the history of ancient and late-antique
philosophy. By addressing some of the most fundamental issues in
Avicenna's psychology, epistemology, natural philosophy and
metaphysics, the contributors to this book hope to make Avicenna's
thought more accessible to Latinists and Islamicists alike. After a
brief preface, there are sections on Avicenna's theories of
intuition and abstraction, and on his ideas about bodies and
matter. Also catalogued in this volume for the first time is a
large hoard of photostats of Avicenna manuscripts recently
uncovered at the American Research Center in Egypt.
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