Avicenna
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801472547 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mohamed EL Tahir said Four Stars. very good. An astonishingly good book Geoff Puterbaugh I am reviewing this book as a rank amateur in philosophy. I got curious about Avicenna when he was prominently mentioned in Varghese's The Wonder of the World: A Journey from Modern Science to the Mind of God. According to Varghese, Avicenna was one of the extremely important philosophe
In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran.. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E
. His many books include most recently Islamic Humanism, In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age, and God of Abraham. Goodman is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Lenn E. Goodman is also the translator of such Arabic classics as Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and The Case of the
That its readership will include not only colleagues in the field of Islamic philosophy but also Islamists generally and researchers studying other cultural traditions is a tribute in which the author should take some satisfaction."ISIS"Anyone who is at all familiar with the writings of the medieval Islamic philosopher Avicenna recognizes him as a philosophically penetrating and original thinker who deserves a place alongside the more familiar major figures in the history of Western philosophy. Avicenna is one of those rare works that one welcomes not only for its competence and accessibility but also for its formidable learning and refreshing new insights. This book presents the reader with an overview of the principal tenets of Avicenna's philosophy