Language and Being in al-Fārābī
the philosophy of taškīk
$271.94
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
22 January 2026
Summary
Al-Fārābī’s Dance Between Language and Being
Language and Being in al-Fārābī is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of language and metaphysics of Abu Nasr al-Farabi (d. 950), a medieval Aristotelian and Islamic philosopher. It looks at the Arabic theory of the amphibolous (ambiguous, having two opposing meanings) predication of ‘being’ and its genesis in the philosophy of Farabi. Stemming from Aristotle’s pros hen homonymy, and parallel to the Latin analogy of being, amph…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197808061 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197808069 |
| Author: | Rosabel Ansari |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 22 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Rosabel Ansari
Rosabel Ansari is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. Her research focusses on the history of Islamic philosophy, from the Graeco-Arabic translations to the post-classical period, as well as its contemporary application. She received her PhD from Georgetown University in 2020.
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