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Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹ : A New Edition, English Translation and Commentary of the Kitāb al-Madḫal of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ / Silvia Di Vincenzo, Avicenna.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; 31Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (CLXXVIII, 420 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110726688
  • 9783110726565
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 160 23
LOC classification:
  • BC181 .A9513 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editing Avicenna’s Madḫal: Introduction to the Edition -- Edition and Translation -- Commentary -- Treatise I -- Treatise II -- Appendix A -- Appendix B: Unedited texts of the school of Baġdād -- Bibliographical references -- Index of Names -- Index of the Arabic Technical Terms and Expressions
Summary: This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitāb al-Madḫal, which opens Avicenna’s (d. 1037) most comprehensive summa of Peripatetic philosophy, namely the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ. For the first time, the text is established together with a stemma codicum showing the genealogical relations among 34 manuscripts, the twelfth-century Latin translation, and the literal "ations by Avicenna’s first and second-generation students. In this book, Avicenna’s reappraisal of Porphyry’s Isagoge is examined from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. The key-features of Avicenna’s theory of predicables are analyzed in the General Introduction and in the Commentary both in their own right and against the background of the Greek and Arabic exegetical tradition. Readers shall find in this book the first systematic study of the Madḫal which, in addition to being the only logical work of the Šifāʾ ever transmitted in its entirety both in Arabic and in Latin, is crucial for understanding Avicenna’s conception of universal predicables at the crossroads between logic and metaphysics.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editing Avicenna’s Madḫal: Introduction to the Edition -- Edition and Translation -- Commentary -- Treatise I -- Treatise II -- Appendix A -- Appendix B: Unedited texts of the school of Baġdād -- Bibliographical references -- Index of Names -- Index of the Arabic Technical Terms and Expressions

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This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitāb al-Madḫal, which opens Avicenna’s (d. 1037) most comprehensive summa of Peripatetic philosophy, namely the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ. For the first time, the text is established together with a stemma codicum showing the genealogical relations among 34 manuscripts, the twelfth-century Latin translation, and the literal "ations by Avicenna’s first and second-generation students. In this book, Avicenna’s reappraisal of Porphyry’s Isagoge is examined from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. The key-features of Avicenna’s theory of predicables are analyzed in the General Introduction and in the Commentary both in their own right and against the background of the Greek and Arabic exegetical tradition. Readers shall find in this book the first systematic study of the Madḫal which, in addition to being the only logical work of the Šifāʾ ever transmitted in its entirety both in Arabic and in Latin, is crucial for understanding Avicenna’s conception of universal predicables at the crossroads between logic and metaphysics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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