Orientations of Avicenna's Philosophy: Essays on His Life, Method, Heritage

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The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna's historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the orientations of his thought. They deal with his life and works, his method, his epistemology, and his later reception in the Islamic world, ending with a programmatic essay on the state of the field of Avicennan studies and future agenda. Occasioned by issues raised in Gutas's monograph on Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (whose second edition has just appeared), they form a substantive complement to it. For this reprint, a number of the essays have been reset and accordingly revised and updated. Provided with exhaustive indexes of names, places, subjects, and technical terms, the volume constitutes a new and major research tool for the study of Avicenna and his heritage. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Life and Works I: Avicenna: Biography II: Avicenna’s Maḏhab, with an Appendix on the Question of his Date of Birth III: Texts from Avicenna’s Library in a Copy by Abd-ar-Razzāq aş-Şiġnāhī (Notes and Texts from Cairo Manuscripts, II) IV: Avicenna’s Marginal Glosses on De Anima and the Greek Commentatorial Tradition V Avicenna’s Eastern (“Oriental”) Philosophy: Nature, Contents, Transmission Method VI: The Logic of Theology (Kalām) in Avicenna VII: The Empiricism of Avicenna VIII: Medical Theory and Scientific Method in the Age of Avicenna Epistemology IX: Avicenna: The Metaphysics of the Rational Soul X: Intuition and Thinking: The Evolving Structure of Avicenna’s Epistemology XI: Imagination and Transcendental Knowledge in Avicenna XII: Intellect Without Limits: The Absence of Mysticismin Avicenna XIII: Avicenna: Mysticism and the Question of his “Oriental” Philosophy The Study of Avicenna and his Heritage XIV: The Heritage of Avicenna: the Golden Age of Arabic Philosophy, 1000-ca. 1350 XV: Philosophy in the Twelfth Century: One View from Baghdad, or the Repudiation of Al-Ghazālī XVI: Ibn Tufayl on Ibn Sīnā’s Eastern Philosophy XVII: The Study of Avicenna. Status Quaestionis Atque Agenda Index of Subjects and Avicenna’s Works Index of Names and Places Index of Principal Terms (Arabic, Greek) Index of Manuscripts