Dimitri Gutas

Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works. Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Including an In

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the second, revised and updated, edition of this foundational work introducing a reading of Avicenna's philosophical works that is consistent with his intention and purpose in philosophy. Its usefulness is enhanced with a new appendix offering a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works that incorporates and updates Mahdavi (1954).

Produktdetails

• Islamic Philosophy, Theology a Nr.89
• Verlag: Brill
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1117g
• ISBN-13: 9789004255807
• ISBN-10: 900425580X
• Artikelnr.: 39548346

Autorenporträt

Dimitri Gutas, Ph.D. 1975 in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University, is Professor of Arabic at Yale. He has published on the medieval Graeco-Arabic translation movement and its lexicography, the transmission of Greek philosophical texts into Arabic, and Arabic philosophy. Most recently he published the Greek text and medieval Arabic translation of Theophrastus, On First Principles (2010), and, with Leonardo Taran, the editio maior of Aristotle's Poetics (2012).