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Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle ""De generatione et corruptione"": Edition, Translation and Commentary
Edited by Marwan Rashed
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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. MÅ«sÄ al-NawbakhtÄ« (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 (KitÄb al-ÄrÄ’ wa-al-diyÄnÄt)-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-KindÄ« and al-FÄrÄbÄ« (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.
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Publisher | De Gruyter
Published date | 28 Aug 2015
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 448
Dimensions | 240 x 170 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 885g
ISBN | 978-3-1104-4364-6
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BISAC | history / ancient / general
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