The Medieval Hebrew Reception of Avicenna’s Account of the Formation and Perseverance of Dry Land: Between Bold Naturalism and Fideist Literalism

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Changing Motion: The Place (and Misplace) of Avicenna’s Theory of Motion in the Post-Classical Islamic World 7
6. Avicenna’s al-ḥikma al-mutaʿāliya. Meaning and Early Reception 25
7. Avicennian Elements in Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Discussion of Place, Void and Directions in the al-Mabāḥiṯ al-mašriqiyya 43
8. The Existence of Time in Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Maṭālib al-ʿāliya 65
9. Time and Mind-Dependence in Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī’s Abkār al-afkār 101
10. A Map of Averroes’ Criticism against Avicenna: Physics, De caelo, De generatione et corruptione and Meteorology 163
11. Avicennian Sources in Abraham Ibn Daud’s Natural Philosophy? 241
12. The Medieval Hebrew Reception of Avicenna’s Account of the Formation and Perseverance of Dry Land: Between Bold Naturalism and Fideist Literalism 269
13. Notes on Anonymous Twelfth-Century Translations of Philosophical Texts from Arabic into Latin on the Iberian Peninsula 313
14. Avicenna’s Influence on William of Auvergne’s Theory of Efficient Causes 371
15. ‘Averroes ubique Avicennam persequitur’: Albert the Great’s Approach to the Physics of the Šifāʾ in the Light of Averroes’ Criticisms 397
16. Avicenna’s Physics in Roger Bacon’s Communia naturalium 433
17. Follower or Opponent of Aristotle? The Critical Reception of Avicenna’s Meteorology in the Latin World and the Legacy of Alfred the Englishman 459
18. Index of Avicenna’s Works with Passages Cited 535
19. Index of Names 543