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Author Reisman, David C

Title The making of the Avicennan tradition : the transmission, contents, and structure of Ibn Sīnā's al-Mubāḥa_tāt (The discussions) / by David C. Reisman
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 333 pages) : illustrations
Series Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 49
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 49. 0169-8729
Contents List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Technical layout of the study -- Chapter One, Part One. The codicological context -- Chapter One, Part Two. Descriptions of the manuscripts -- Chapter Two. The recension process of the Mubāḥaṯāt -- Chapter Three. The context of composition and the participants in The Discussions -- Chapter Four. The contents, order, and dating of the Mubāḥaṯāt texts -- Epilogue: Editing the Mubāḥaṯāt -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index of names and places -- Index of manuscripts -- Index of Avicenna's works -- Index of Arabic words
Summary This volume represents a philological approach to the study of the medieval philosophy Avicenna by investigating the manuscripts and textual transmission of his philosophical correspondence with students and colleagues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-315) and indexes
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Subject Avicenna, 980-1037. Mubāḥathāt.
SUBJECT Mubāḥathāt (Avicenna) fast
Subject Islamic philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Islamic philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1417545534
9781417545537
9047401417
9789047401414
9789004125049
9004125043