The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries

Logic and Epistemology
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-50400-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12/2, 668 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1226 g

Reihe: Islamicate Intellectual History

This is the second in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Moving on from the metaphysical and theological concerns covered in the first book, this volume looks at issues in logic and epistemology in the reception of Avicenna’s thought. Across dozens of authors and hundreds of passages, the translated material covers a wide range of topics including the subject matter of logic, the nature of knowledge and self-knowledge, questions in philosophy of language and syllogistic theory, and paradoxes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adamson, Peter

Benevich, Fedor

Klinger, Dustin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Adamson, Ph.D. (2000), University of Notre Dame, is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich. He has published monographs on the philosophers al-Kindi and al-Razi and edited many books, including Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Fedor Benevich, Ph.D. (2016), LMU Munich, is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Essentialität und Notwendigkeit: Avicenna und die Aristotelische Tradition (Brill 2018) as well as of multiple articles and chapters on Avicenna, post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy, and kalam.

Dustin Klinger Ph.D., Harvard University, is the author of Being Another Way: The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900–1500(University of California Press, 2024). Currently he is a British Academy International Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he held an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich