Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam
Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group
Edited by Jon McGinnis with the assistance of David C. Reisman
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Biographical note
Jon McGinnis, Ph.D. (2000) in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of classical and medieval philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He has published on ancient and Arabic medieval temporal theories specifically and more generally on Avicennan physics and philosophy of science.
Readership
All those interested in medieval (Arabic) philosophy and history of science as well as those more generally interested in the history of ideas.
Reviews
'This is a useful collection of articles on the thought of Avicenna, and these range widely over his scientific and philosophical work, and the thought of those he in turn influenced.'
Oliver Leaman, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 2005.
Oliver Leaman, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 2005.
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Dieses Buch untersucht Leben und Denken von al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ (st. 1188), einem der einflussreichsten Theologen der jemenitischen Zaydiyya.
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