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Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹

A New Edition, English Translation and Commentary of the Kitāb al-Madḫal of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ
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Languages: English, Arabic
Published/Copyright: 2021
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Scientia Graeco-Arabica
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Volume 31 | Scientia Graeco-Arabica

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This book offers a new edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Kitāb al-Madḫal, which opens Avicenna’s (d. 1037) most comprehensive summa of Peripatetic philosophy, namely the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ. For the first time, the text is established together with a stemma codicum showing the genealogical relations among 34 manuscripts, the twelfth-century Latin translation, and the literal quotations by Avicenna’s first and second-generation students. In this book, Avicenna’s reappraisal of Porphyry’s Isagoge is examined from both a historical and a philosophical point of view. The key-features of Avicenna’s theory of predicables are analyzed in the General Introduction and in the Commentary both in their own right and against the background of the Greek and Arabic exegetical tradition. Readers shall find in this book the first systematic study of the Madḫal which, in addition to being the only logical work of the Šifāʾ ever transmitted in its entirety both in Arabic and in Latin, is crucial for understanding Avicenna’s conception of universal predicables at the crossroads between logic and metaphysics.

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Silvia Di Vincenzo, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgements

    vii
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    Contents

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    Editing Avicenna’s Madḫal: Introduction to the Edition

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    Edition and Translation

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    Treatise I

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    Treatise II

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    Appendix A

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    Appendix B: Unedited texts of the school of Baġdād

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    Bibliographical references

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    Index of Names

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    Index of the Arabic Technical Terms and Expressions

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April 19, 2021
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9783110726565
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April 19, 2021
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9783110726688
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Front matter:
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420
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Tables:
33
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726565
eBook ISBN: 9783110726565
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110726688
Keywords for this book
Avicenna; Šifāʾ; Porphyry; universal predicables
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Scholars in the fields of the history of ancient, medieval, and Arabic and Islamic philosophy, Arabic and Islamic studies
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