Avicenna and His Legacy

by Langermann, Y. Tzvi

• ISBN13: 9782503527536
• ISBN10: 2503527531
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-30
• Publisher: Brepols Pub

Summary

The centuries immediately following upon the monumental achievements of Avicenna (d. 1036) have been rightly characterized as a golden age of science and philosophy. Generation after generation scrutinized the Avicennan legacy, explicating and expanding upon the wealth of writings left by the master. Critical thinking in logic and astronomy, medicine and metaphysics, spurred many new developments. This volume presents seventeen essays on Avicenna, his followers and critics, many of whom are just now being introduced to western scholarship. The contributors to Avicenna and his Legacy include both established scholars as well as some of the best of the new generation.

Author Biography

Prof. Tzvi Langermann studied at Boston University and at Harvard University. He currently works at the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University where his research focuses on science and philosophy in medieval Jewish and Islamic cultures.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Avicenna's Immediate Disciples: Their Lives and Works	p. 1
Al-Ghazali's Cosmology in the Veil Section of his Mishkat al-Anwar	p. 27
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Falsafa: Al-Ghazali's Madnun, Tahafut, and Maqasid, with Particular Attention to their Falsafi Treatments of God's Knowledge of Temporal Events	p. 51
Ibn al-'Arabi's Attitude toward al-Ghazali	p. 101
The al-Ghazali Conspiracy: Reflections on the Inter-Mediterranean Dimension of Islamic Intellectual History	p. 117
The Chapter 'On Existence and Non-existence' of Ibn Kammuna's al-Jadid fi l-Hikma: Trends and Sources in an Author's Shaping the Exegetical Tradition of al-Suhrawardi's Ontology	p. 143
Ibn Kammuna (d. 683/1284) on the Argument of the Flying Man in Avicenna's Isharat and al-Suhrawardi's Talwihat	p. 179
Al-Amidi's Reception of Ibn Sina: Reading Al-Nur al-Bahir fi al-Hikam al-Zawahir	p. 205
The Virtuous Son of the Rational: A Traditionalist's Response to the Falasifa	p. 219
Existence Deriving from 'the Existent': Mulla Sadra with Ibn Sina and al-Suhrawardi	p. 249
Arabic Logicians on Perfect and Imperfect Syllogisms: A Supplement to Patzig's 'Historical Excursus'	p. 257
Avicenna: Providence and God's Knowledge of Particulars	p. 275
Is Medicine an 'ilm? A Preliminary Note on Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's al-Tuhfa al-sa'diyya (MS Sehid 'Ali Pesa 2047)	p. 289
The Khilas kayfiyyat tarkib al-aflak of al-Juzjani: A Preliminary Description of its Avicennian Themes	p. 301
Falsafa and Astronomy after Avicenna: An Evolving Relationship	p. 307
Avicenna's Influence on Jewish Thought: Some Reflections	p. 327
New Light on Maimonidean Writings on Metempsychosis and the Influence of Avicenna	p. 341
Index of Names	p. 369
Index of Works	p. 375
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