Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle "De generatione et corruptione" : : Edition, Translation and Commentary / / ed. by Marwan Rashed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• HerausgeberIn: Rashed, Marwan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica , 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)

This book contains a new edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic and preserved to this day, together with an extensive commentary. It is a compendium on the treatise De generatione et corruptione, written by the Imamite theologian and heresiographer Hasan b. Mūsā al-Nawbakhtī (fl. ca. 900). To this day, apart from the title of more than forty works and numerous fragments-taken mainly from his magnum opus, the Book of the Doctrines and Religions (Kitāb al-ārā’ wa-al-diyānāt)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shî’î Sects (Kitâb firaq al-shî’a), was known to us. The text sheds new light in several ways: firstly, on the the Arabic philosophical tradition, since it was composed during the obscure period between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī (roughly, the 2nd half of the 9th c.); secondly, on the Greek tradition, since the author makes extensive use of Alexander’s lost commentary on De generatione; thirdly, on the formative period of shī’ism, since it helps us to reconstruct how the author borrowed from the Aristotelian tradition the tools necessary to build up a new anthropology compatible with the doctrine of the Occultation which he inaugurated at the time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. TEXT AND TRANSLATION -- Introduction to the Critical Edition -- Sigla -- Summary of the Book On Generation and Destruction -- II. COMMENTARY -- Introduction of the Work -- Section 1: On Generation, Destruction and the Categories -- Section 2: On Generation, Non-Being and Matter -- Section 3: On Matter, Form and Generation and Destruction -- Section 4: On Generation, Substance and Accidents -- Section 5: On the Different Kinds of Change and Change According to Place -- Section 6: On Growth -- Section 7: On Nutrition -- Section 8: On Contact -- Section 9: On Action and Passion -- Section 10: On Mixing -- Section 11: On the Elements -- Section 12: On the Reciprocal Change of the Elements -- Section 13: Formation of Homoeomers -- Section 14: Generation and Destruction and the Celestial Bodies -- III. AL-ḤASAN IBN MŪSĀ AL-NAWBAḪTĪ -- The author of the treatise: al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī -- Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī as a philosopher -- Bibliography -- Index of Arabic words -- Index nominum -- Index locorum