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Title Aristotle and the Arabic tradition / edited by Ahmed Alwishah, Josh Hayes
Published United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 266 pages .)
Contents "Arisṭū 'inda l-'Arab," and beyond / Christina D'Ancona -- The division of the categories according to Avicenna / Paul Thom -- What if that (is) why? Avicenna's taxonomy of scientific inquiries / Riccardo Strobino -- The Rhetoric and Poetics in the Islamic world / Uwe Vagelpohl -- Al-Fārābī and the Didascalia / Frédérique Woerther -- Aristotle's 'physical' works and the Arabic tradition / Paul Lettinck -- Defining nature : from Aristotle to Philoponus to Avicenna / Andreas Lammer -- Avicenna on self-cognition and self-awareness / Ahmed Alwishah -- Averroes on intentionality and the human experience of the natural world / Yehuda Halper -- Metaphysics in the orbit of Islam / Calvin Normore -- The Arabic reception of the Nicomachean Ethics / Josh Hayes -- The shining and the hidden : notes on politics and solitude from the "Greek prophets" to al-Fārābī / Claudia Baracchi
Summary Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-260) and index
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Subject Aristotle -- Influence
Aristotle
Philosophy, Arab.
Islamic philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Islamic philosophy
Philosophy, Arab
Arabisk filosofi.
Aristotelism -- historia.
Influenser.
Form Electronic book
Author Alwishah, Ahmed, editor
ISBN 9781316400968
1316400964
9781316182109
131618210X
9781316398760
1316398765
9781107499225
1107499224