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This book examines the theory of causality formulated by the Zaydī al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ, whose thought bears witness to the symbiosis between Zaydī and Bahšamī theology in 6th/12th century Yemen.
Die vorliegende Studie stellt die Kausalitätstheorie des Zayditen al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ als ein Produkt ...
€283.00$367.00
Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinān was one of the most famous scientists of the tenth century. His specialities were geometry, logic and philosophy of mathematics. In this volume, the works of this scientist are thoroughly researched, and three new hypotheses presented.
€406.00$526.00
These volumes provide the Arabic, Latin and English versions of the major text on political astrology of the Middle Ages, generally attributed to Abū Ma‘šar (Albumasar), with a commentary and Latin-Arabic and Arabic-Latin glossaries.
€167.00$216.00
This publication of al-Kindī's metaphysical and cosmological writings provides a new critical edition and a new French translation of six books including the First Philosophy. In this volume, the reader will find a rigorous edition and translation of the first contributions in Islamic philosophy.
€380.00$492.00
This publication of al-Kindī's Optics and Catoptrics provides editio princeps and the first translation of three books including the Rectification of Euclid's Optics hitherto unknown. In this book, the reader will find genuine and new information about Greek and Arabic optics and catoptics.
€92.00$119.00
This edition and annotated translation of al-Qāsim's Kitāb al-mustarshid includes a discussion of anthropomorphism and interpretation of the Qur’ān in the theology of the Zaidite imam al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm (785-860 A.D.). Al-Qāsim's methods of interpretation are put forth and analyzed in light of ...
€151.00$196.00
K. al-Manām by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (d. 281/894) is a compendium of 350 Muslim dream narratives in Arabic. The English introduction examines the function of dreams in classical Arabic literature with a focus on dreams as a means of edification.
€124.00$161.00
This source publication of one of the earliest Arabic pharmacopoeias is framed by a philological analysis of the unique manuscript, a biographical sketch of its author, an etymological survey of terms, a glossary, and indices.
€117.00$152.00
The Buyide wezir Abū I-Faḍl Ibn al-‘Amīd (died 970 A.D.) became famous as a poet and expert in epistolary literature (inšą’), but also as a scholar and scientist. His letters, published here together with translation, commentary and complete glossary, inform us on questions of meteorology, ...
€220.00$285.00
A survey of what Arabic scholars have written on the subjects treated in Aristotle's Meteorology. It is investigated how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. Also, two Arabic treatises are edited and translated.