The Physics of The Healing
A Parallel English-Arabic Text in Two Volumes
$137.60
- Hardcover
1168 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2010
Summary
Avicenna’s Physics is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, TheHealing. Avicenna’s reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understand such special natural sciences as psychology; it sets up many of the problems that take center stage in his Metaphysics; and it provides concrete examples of many of the abstract analytical tools that he would de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780842527477 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0842527478 |
| Author: | Avicenna, Jon McGinnis |
| Publisher: | Brigham Young University Press |
| Imprint: | Brigham Young University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1168 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 2.18kg |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 18mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series |
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Critics Review
“The Islamic Translation Series … has established itself as one of the most valuable resources available to scholars of Islamic theology and Arab philosophy.”
–Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith StudiesAvicenna
Jon McGinnis is associate professor of classical and medieval philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
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