Doubts on Avicenna
A Study and Edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s Commentary on the <i>Ishārāt</i>
Abstract
In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh offers an extended study and critical edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk, a key and hitherto unstudied source for twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. This text inaugurates the long commentarial tradition on Avicenna’s Ishārāt. Readership: All interested in the history of medieval Arabic philosophy and rational theology (kalām), especially metaphysics, natural philosophy, Avicenna, the Avicennan tradition, al-Ghazālī, Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
Keywords
Islamic & Arabic philosophyDOI
10.1163/9789004302532Publisher
BrillPublisher website
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2015Imprint
BrillSeries
Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, 95Classification
Islamic and Arab philosophy