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Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle ""De generatione et corruptione"": Edition, Translation and Commentary

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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-ÄrÄâ€™ wa-al-diyÄnÄt)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of ShÃ®â€™Ã® Sects (KitÃ¢b firaq al-shÃ®â€™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 Alexanderâ€™s lost commentary on De generatione; thirdly, on the formative period of shÄ«â€™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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