Doubts on Avicenna : : a study and edition of Sharaf al-Din al-Ma'sudi's commentary on the Isharat / / Ayman Shihadeh.

• Superior document: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, Volume 95
• VerfasserIn: Shihadeh, Ayman,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2015; 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; 95.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Doubts on Avicenna , Ayman Shihadeh brings to light an important new source, which marks a key moment of transition in twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk ʿalā l-Ishārāt ( Investigations and Objections on the Pointers ) offers major insight into the dialectic between the two traditions of Avicennan philosophy and rational theology, particularly Ashʿarism, which by the end of the century culminates in the systematic philosophical theology of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Inaugurating the long and distinguished commentarial tradition on Avicenna’s Ishārāt ( Pointers ), al-Masʿūdī’s Shukūk uniquely consists of aporias on selected passages, as opposed to exegesis. This monograph provides an overview and the first critical edition of the text, and in-depth case studies of metaphysical aporias and their Avicennan background.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Al-Masʿūdī’s Life and Career, in Context -- The Shukūk: Aporetic Commentary -- Efficient Causation and Continued Existence: Problem 9 -- The Ontology of Possibility: Problems 10 and 14 -- Avicenna’s Proof of the Existence of God: Problem 7 -- Matter and Form: Problem 1 -- The Manuscripts and Critical Edition -- Bibliography -- Index of Individuals, Groups and Places -- Index of Subjects -- Critical Edition: Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī, al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk ʿalā l-Ishārāt.