'Abd al-Latif al-Bagdadi's philosophical journey : : from Aristotle's Metaphysics to the 'Metaphysical Science' / / by Cecilia Martini Bonadeo.

• Superior document: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; 88
• Author: Bonadeo, Cecilia Martini.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 88.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The present work provides a detailed account of the available data on ?Abd al-La?if al-Bagdadi's biography, an outline of his philosophical thought, and a detailed analysis of his reworking of pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic metaphysics.

Table of Contents

'Abd al-Latīf al-Baġdādī's Philosophical Journey; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I The Tradition of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the Muslim East; 1. On the Greek Tradition of Metaphysics; 2. On the Arabic Tradition of Aristotle's Metaphysics (8th-9th Centuries); 2.1. The Translation and the Reception of Metaphysics in Arabic; 2.2. Al-Kindī's Reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics; 2.3. Tābit ibn Qurra: An Antidote to al-Kindī's Neoplatonic Reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics?

3. Metaphysics in the System of the Arabic-Islamic Sciences and the Authority of Aristotle in the Peripatetic Circle of Tenth-Century Baghdad. Al-Fārābī, Yahyā ibn 'Adī, Abū l-Farağ ibn al-Tayyib4. Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) and Metaphysics; 4.1. Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Education; 4.2. Structure and Doctrine of the Metaphysical Science in Avicenna; II The Intellectual Biography of 'Abd al-Latīf al-Baġdādī; 'Abd al-Latīf al-Baġdādī in the Sources of Informationon the Classes of Physicians by Ibn Abī Usaybi'a; 2. The Kitāb al-Nasīhatayn; 2.1. The Polemic Against False Doctors

2.2. The Polemic Against Contemporary Philosophy: Plato's and Aristotle's Method'Abd al-Latīf al-Baġdādī and Avicenna; 3. The Ancient Lists of the Works of 'Abd al-Latīf al-Baġdādī and the Testimony of Manuscript Bursa, Hüseyin Çelebi 823; III The Book on the Science of Metaphysics by 'Abd al-Latīf al-Baġdādī; 1. The Manuscripts; 2. The Greek and Arabic Sources of the Book on the Science of Metaphysics and their Use:'Abd al-Latīf al-Baġdādī's Return to al-Kindi's Metaphysical Project

2.1. The Metaphysics, the Paraphrase of Lambda by Themistius, and the Fīmabadi' al-kull by Alexander of Aphrodisias2.2. Alexander of Aphrodisias' De Providentia; 2.3. The Liber de Causis and the Elements of Theology by Proclus; 2.4. The Pseudo-Theology of Aristotle; 3. The Structure of the Work: the Metaphysical Model of al-Fārābī; 3.1. Part One: the Study of Beings and their Accidents; 3.2. Part Two: the Principles of Definition and Demonstration; 3.3. Part Three: the Hierarchy of the Immaterial and Intelligible Realities

4. From the Aristotelian Text of Metaphysics to Metaphysics as a DisciplineBibliography; Index of Manuscripts; Index of Ancient Names; Index of Modern Names; Index of Ancient Sources