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| #8036012 in Books | 2003-10 | Original language:English | 9.50 x6.25 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages||15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| A profound study of a profound mind|By Philip Jeyaratnam|Avicenna (a Latinised version of Ibn Sina) was born in 980 A.D. in Central Asia. He died in 1037 in Persia. A child prodigy who memorised the Koran by age 10, Ibn Sina also taught himself medicine and treated patients as a teenager. Arguably the greatest mind of Islamic civilisation, his intellectual achievements||"Wisnovsky's approach epitomizes what I see as the three most fruitful avenues for the study of the first few centuries of Arabic philosophy: taking late-antique thought (especially the commentators) into account and being attentive to details of the Arabic tr
An analysis of the sources and evolution of the metaphysics of Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. 1037 AD) -- known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna -- this book focuses on the answers Avicenna and his predecessors gave to two fundamental questions: what is the soul and how does it cause the body? and what is God and how does He cause the world? To respond to these challenges Avicenna invented new concepts and distinctions and reinterpreted old ones. The author concludes tha...
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