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Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle "De generatione et corruptione" : Edition, Translation and Commentary / ed. by Marwan Rashed.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; 19Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110443646
  • 9783110444582
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 500 23
LOC classification:
  • Q151
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. TEXT AND TRANSLATION -- Introduction to the Critical Edition -- Sigla -- Summary of the Book On Generation and Destruction -- II. COMMENTARY -- Introduction of the Work -- Section 1: On Generation, Destruction and the Categories -- Section 2: On Generation, Non-Being and Matter -- Section 3: On Matter, Form and Generation and Destruction -- Section 4: On Generation, Substance and Accidents -- Section 5: On the Different Kinds of Change and Change According to Place -- Section 6: On Growth -- Section 7: On Nutrition -- Section 8: On Contact -- Section 9: On Action and Passion -- Section 10: On Mixing -- Section 11: On the Elements -- Section 12: On the Reciprocal Change of the Elements -- Section 13: Formation of Homoeomers -- Section 14: Generation and Destruction and the Celestial Bodies -- III. AL-ḤASAN IBN MŪSĀ AL-NAWBAḪTĪ -- The author of the treatise: al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī -- Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī as a philosopher -- Bibliography -- Index of Arabic words -- Index nominum -- Index locorum
Summary: 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. Mūsā al-Nawbakhtī (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 (Kitāb al-ārā’ wa-al-diyānāt)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shî’î Sects (Kitâb firaq al-shî’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-Kindī and al-Fārābī (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 shī’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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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. TEXT AND TRANSLATION -- Introduction to the Critical Edition -- Sigla -- Summary of the Book On Generation and Destruction -- II. COMMENTARY -- Introduction of the Work -- Section 1: On Generation, Destruction and the Categories -- Section 2: On Generation, Non-Being and Matter -- Section 3: On Matter, Form and Generation and Destruction -- Section 4: On Generation, Substance and Accidents -- Section 5: On the Different Kinds of Change and Change According to Place -- Section 6: On Growth -- Section 7: On Nutrition -- Section 8: On Contact -- Section 9: On Action and Passion -- Section 10: On Mixing -- Section 11: On the Elements -- Section 12: On the Reciprocal Change of the Elements -- Section 13: Formation of Homoeomers -- Section 14: Generation and Destruction and the Celestial Bodies -- III. AL-ḤASAN IBN MŪSĀ AL-NAWBAḪTĪ -- The author of the treatise: al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī -- Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī as a philosopher -- Bibliography -- Index of Arabic words -- Index nominum -- Index locorum

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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. Mūsā al-Nawbakhtī (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 (Kitāb al-ārā’ wa-al-diyānāt)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shî’î Sects (Kitâb firaq al-shî’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-Kindī and al-Fārābī (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 shī’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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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