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

Avicenna; Silvia Di Vincenzo

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹

A New Edition, English Translation and Commentary of the Kitāb al-Madḫal of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ

Avicenna and Silvia Di Vincenzo

Volume 31 in the series Scientia Graeco-Arabica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726565

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About this book

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 quotations 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.

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Silvia Di Vincenzo, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Editing Avicenna’s Madḫal: Introduction to the Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Edition and Translation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Commentary
Treatise I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Treatise II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
Appendix A Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Appendix B: Unedited texts of the school of Baġdād Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
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Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Index of the Arabic Technical Terms and Expressions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414

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Languages: English, Arabic
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the fields of the history of ancient, medieval, and Arabic and Islamic philosophy, Arabic and Islamic studies
Pages
- Front matter: 178
- Main content: 420
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 24
- Tables: 33
Keywords: Avicenna; Šifāʾ; Porphyry; universal predicables

eBook

Published: April 19, 2021
ISBN: 9783110726565

Hardcover

Published: April 19, 2021
ISBN: 9783110726688