The reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifāʾ : a milestone of Western metaphysical thought / by Amos Bertolacci.

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Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
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Series:Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, v. 63
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245 1 4 |a The reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifāʾ :  |b a milestone of Western metaphysical thought /  |c by Amos Bertolacci. 
260 |a Leiden ;  |a Boston :  |b Brill,  |c 2006. 
300 |a xvii, 675 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
440 0 |a Islamic philosophy, theology, and science,  |x 0169-8729 ;  |v v. 63 
500 |a Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 2005. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [617]-653) and indexes. 
505 0 0 |g Ch. 1.  |t The Arabic translations of the Metaphysics : a new assessment on account of the evidence provided by Avicenna --  |g Ch. 2.  |t Beyond al-Kindi and al-Farabi : Avicenna's position in the history of the Arab reception of the Metaphysics --  |g Ch. 3.  |t Between Ammonius and Avicenna : al-Farabi's treatise On the goals of Aristotle's Metaphysics --  |g Ch. 4.  |t Avicenna's conception of the theme of the Metaphysics : "existent qua existent" as the subject matter, the first causes and God as the goal of metaphysics --  |g Ch. 5.  |t Avicenna's reworking of the structure of the Metaphysics : metaphysics as the discipline dealing with the species, the properties and the principles of "existent" --  |g Ch. 6.  |t Avicenna's elaboration of the method of the Metaphysics : metaphysics as a demonstrative, analytical, non-dialectical science --  |g Ch. 7.  |t Avicenna's view of the relationship of the Metaphysics with the other parts of the Aristotelian corpus : metaphysics as the founding discipline --  |g Ch. 8.  |t The quotations of the Metaphysics in the Ilahiyyat --  |g Ch. 9.  |t The main source of Avicenna's conception of metaphysics as a science : book [Gamma] and its quotations --  |g Ch. 10.  |t Avicenna's attitude towards dialectic : book B and its quotations --  |g Ch. 11.  |t The other sources of the Ilahiyyat --  |g App. A.  |t Towards a critical edition of the Ilahiyyat : list of corrections of the Cairo printed text --  |g App. B.  |t Index of authors and works quoted in the Ilahiyyat --  |g App. C.  |t Overview of the main works by Avicenna on metaphysics in chronological order --  |g App. D.  |t Names for Aristotle's Metaphysics and metaphysics as a discipline in Avicenna's works --  |g App. E.  |t The style of the Kitab al-Sifa --  |g App. F.  |t The terminology for "property" in the Ilahiyyat. 
520 1 |a "The present volume provides the first systematic comparison of the Ilahiyyat with the Metaphysics and a comprehensive account of this latter's transmission in Pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy."--BOOK JACKET. 
600 0 0 |a Avicenna,  |d 980-1037.  |t Ilāhīyāt. 
600 0 0 |a Aristotle.  |t Metaphysics. 
600 1 0 |a Aristotle  |x Influence. 
650 0 |a Islamic philosophy  |x Greek influences. 
650 0 |a Metaphysics  |x History. 
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