The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries: Metaphysics and Theology

by Fedor Benevich and Peter Adamson

This is the first in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Avicenna was the dominant philosophical authority in this period, who provoked generations of thinkers to subtle critique, defense, and development of his ideas. The series will translate and analyze hundreds of passages from works by such figures as al-Ghazālī,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004503986
• ISBN13: 9789004503984
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 740 Pages