{"product_id":"the-metaphysica-of-avicenna-ibn-sina-9781138947375","title":"The Metaphysica of Avicenna ibn Sina","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, first published in 1973, Professor Parviz Morewedge, an expert on Islamic philosophy and mysticism, provides a critical exposition of one text of ibn Sina (Avicenna), the great Persian philosopher who lived from 980 to 1037. The text is his \u003ci\u003eMetaphysica\u003c\/i\u003e in the \u003ci\u003eDanish Nama-I ala'I \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Scientific Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e). In addition to a translation of the text from Persian into English, this edition includes a critical commentary on the major arguments found in the text, and notes and references to other texts of ibn Sina as well as to relevant texts of Greek philosophers, particularly Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus. There is also a glossary of the key terms used in the \u003ci\u003eMetaphysica\u003c\/i\u003e, with their Persian, Arabic, Greek and Latin equivalents where necessary. This book is concerned primarily to show that although in the text ibn Sina resorts to the Aristotelian vocabulary and Neo-Platonic themes, and appears to be in accord with the Islamic tradition,\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019544920407,"sku":"9781138947375","price":35.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138947375.jpg?v=1750780588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-metaphysica-of-avicenna-ibn-sina-9781138947375","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}