Al-Rāzī

by Peter Adamson and Peter S. Adamson

Book Overview

This book introduces readers to Abu Bakr al-Razi (known in Latin as Rhazes), one of the most innovative and divisive figures of the early philosophical tradition in the Islamic world. Drawing on his extant works on ethics and a range of quotations and testimony from often hostile medieval
authors, Adamson reconstructs Razi's cosmological system, which posits four principles alongside God for the making of the universe: Soul, Matter, Time, and Place...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197555047
• ISBN13: 9780197555040
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"