| Description |
1 online resource (448 p.) |
| Series |
Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 1868-7172 ; Band 19 |
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Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; Band 19.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction to the Critical Edition -- Sigla -- Summary of the Book On Generation and Destruction -- 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 -- 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 |
| Analysis |
Arabic history |
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Aristotle |
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edition |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2015) |
| Subject |
Aristotle. Generation and corruption
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Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies -- Classical Studies -- Ancient History
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Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies -- Classical Studies -- Greek -- Greek Authors
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Philosophy, Medieval -- History
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Science.
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Physics.
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Philosophy.
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Islam.
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science (modern discipline)
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physics.
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philosophy.
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Islam.
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HISTORY / Ancient / General.
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Philosophy, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rashed, Marwan, editor, translator, commentator for written text
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| ISBN |
3110436809 |
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9783110436808 |
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3110444585 |
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9783110444582 |
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9783110443646 |
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3110443643 |
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9783110444599 |
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3110444593 |
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