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This volume contains the Arabic translations of a lost treatise by Alexander of Aphrodisias (c. AD 200) On the Principles of the Universe with English translation, introduction and commentary. It also includes an Arabic and Syriac glossary. The introduction and commentary deal in detail with the manuscripts, the translators and the exegetical tendencies of the text, as well as with its reception in Arabic philosophy. The main theme of the work is the motion of the heavenly bodies and their influence on the physical world.
Price: $165.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
Publication Date:
02 February 2001
ISBN: 9789004119635
Format: Other
Charles Genequand is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Geneva University. He is the author of Ibn Rushd's Metaphysics (Brill, 1984) and of numerous articles on Arabic philosophy.