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Corporate Author Avicenna Study Group. Conference (2nd : 2002 : Mainz, Germany)

Title Interpreting Avicenna : science and philosophy in medieval Islam : proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group / edited by Jon McGinnis with the assistance of David C. Reisman.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 56
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 56. 0169-8729
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and indexes.
Contents Pseudo-Avicennan Corpus, I: methodological considerations / David C. Reisman -- Ibn Sīnā on chance in the Physics of aš-Šifāʼ / Catarina Belo -- On the moment of substantial change: a vexed question in the history of ideas / Jon McGinnis -- Intellect, soul and body in Ibn Sīnā: systematic synthesis and development of the Aristotelian, Neoplatonic and Galenic theories / Robert E. Hall -- Non-discursive thought in Avicenna's commentary on the Theology of Aristotle / Peter Adamson -- Conception of the angle in the works of Ibn Sīnā and aš-Šīrāzī / Irina Luther -- Avicenna's argument for the existence of God: was he really influenced by the Mutakallimūn? / Ömer Mahir Alper -- Reconsidering Avicenna's position on God's knowledge of particulars / Rahim Acar -- Reception of Book B (Beta) of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the Ilāhīyāt of Avicenna's Kitāb aš-Šifāʼ / Amos Bertolacci -- Relation between form and matter: some brief observations on the 'homology argument' (Ilāhīyāt, II. 4) and the deduction of Fluxus / Olga Lizzini -- Three properties of prophethood in certain works of Avicenna and al-Ġazālī / M. Afifi al-Akiti -- Resurrection (maʻād) in the Persian Ḣayāt an-Nufūs of Ismāʻīl Ibn Muḥammad Rīzī: the Avicennan background / Roxanne D. Marcotte.
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Subject Avicenna, 980-1037 -- Congresses.
Avicenna, 980-1037.
Avicenna, 980-1037.
Islamic philosophy -- Congresses.
Islamic philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval -- Congresses.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Islam and science -- History -- Congresses.
Islam and science.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Other Form: Print version: Avicenna Study Group. Conference (2nd : 2002 : Mainz, Germany). Interpreting Avicenna. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 (DLC) 2004050584
ISBN 9789047405818 (electronic book)
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9004139605 (alkaline paper)
9004139605 (alkaline paper)