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Through close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by delineating the approach most consistent with Avicenna's intention and purpose in philosophy. The second edition of this foundational work, which has quickened fruitful research into the philosopher in the last quarter century, is completely revised and updated, and adds a new final chapter summarizing Avicenna's philosophical project. It is also enlarged with the addition of a new appendix which offers a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works, updating the work of Mahdavi (1954) with additional information on all manuscripts and important editions and translations. Its usefulness enhanced, the book provides primary orientation to Avicenna's philosophy and works and constitutes an indispensable research tool for their study.
Winner of the I. R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2014
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition (2013)
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the First Edition (1988)
Layout of the Work
PART ONE
DOCUMENTS ON AVICENNA AND THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION
Chapter 1. Personal Texts by Avicenna and His Disciples on His Relation to the Aristotelian Tradition
Chapter 2. An Inventory and Relative Chronology of Avicenna's Major Philosophical Works. Their Organization and Contents in Relation to the Aristotelian Tradition
PART TWO
AVICENNA'S RECEPTION OF THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION
Chapter 3. Avicenna's Intellectual Upbringing: The Autobiography and Its Interpretation
Chapter 4. Avicenna's Conception of the History of Philosophy
Chapter 5. Avicenna's Conception of the Praxis of Philosophy
PART THREE
AVICENNA'S INTEGRATION OF THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION
Chapter 6. The Resolution of the Major Points of Conflict with the Aristotelian Tradition
Chapter 7. The Evolution of Avicenna's Attitude toward Aristotle, the Aristotelian Tradition, and His Own Work
Chapter 8. The Elaboration of Methods
CODA. Avicenna's Philosophical Project
APPENDIX. Inventory of Avicenna's Authentic works
Index of Names and Places
Index of Avicenna's Works with Passages Cited
Index of Lemmata
Index of Qurʾānic Passages
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Greek Words
Index of Arabic Words
Index of Technical Terms
Bibliography
