The Reception of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics in Avicenna\u2019s Kit\u101b al-\u160if\u101': A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought

This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn S\u12bn\u101, d. 1037 C.E.), one of the major exponents of Arabic philosophy: the Il\u101hiyy\u101t (Science of Divine Things) of the Kit\u101b al-\u160if\u101\u2019 (Book of the Cure), known in the Latin Middle Ages as Liber de Philosophia Prima sive Scientia Divina. The first part of the book (on the Arabic translations of the Metaphysics, al-Kind\u12b and al-F\u101r\u101b\u12b) introduces the discussion of Avicenna\u2019s reshaping of the epistemological profile of the Metaphysics in Part II (his account of the subject-matter, structure, method and role of metaphysics in the system of sciences) and the recasting of its contents in Part III. The present book provides the first systematic comparison of the Il\ue6hiyy\ue6t with the Metaphysics and a comprehensive account of this latter\u2019s transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy