Also in the Variorum Collected Studies Series: DIMITRI GUTAS Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition RICHARD M. FRANK (ed. Dimitri Gutas) Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I RICHARD M. FRANK (ed. Dimitri Gutas) Early Islamic Theology: The Mutazilites and al-Ash arl Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. II RICHARD M. FRANK (ed. 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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: 2014947945 ISBN 13: 978-1-4724-3633-7 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-0-367-60000-6 (pbk) VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES CS1050 CONTENTS Foreword IX Acknowledgments xiv Life and Works I Avicenna: biography 1-11 Encyclopaedia Iranica, III. London: Rout I edge, 1987, pp. 67-70 II Avicenna’s Madhab, with an appendix on the question of his date of birth 323-336 Quaderni di StudiArabi 5-6 [Atti delXIII Congresso dell’U nion Europeenne d' Arab is ants et d’Islamisants. Venice, 29 September ­ 4 October 1986], 1987-1988 III Texts from Avicenna’s library in a copy by c Abd-ar-Razzaq as-Signahl (Notes and Texts from Cairo Manuscripts, II) 1-25 Manuscripts of the Middle East 2, 1987, pp. 8-17 IV Avicenna’s marginal glosses on De anima and the Greek commentatorial tradition 77-88 Philosophy, Science & Exegesis in Greek, Arabic & Latin Commentaries (Essays in Honour of Richard Sorabji), eds P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, and M. W.F. Stone (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 83.2). London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2004, vol. II V Avicenna’s Eastern (“Oriental”) philosophy: nature, contents, transmission 159-180 Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 10, 2000 vi CONTENTS Method VI The logic of theology (kalam) in Avicenna 59-72 Logik und Theologie. Das Organon im arabischen und im lateinischen Mittelalter, eds D. Perler and U. Rudolph. Leiden: Brill, 2005 VII The empiricism of Avicenna 1-53 Oriens 40, 2012, pp. 391-436 VIII Medical theory and scientific method in the age of Avicenna 145-162 Before and After Avicenna (Proceedings of the First Conference of the Avicenna Study Group), ed. D. C. Reisman. Leiden: Brill, 2003 Epistemology IX Avicenna: the metaphysics of the rational soul 417-425 The Muslim World 102, 2012 X Intuition and thinking: the evolving structure of Avicenna’s epistemology 1-38 Princeton Papers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 9, 2001, 1-38; repr. in Aspects of Avicenna, ed. R. Wisnovsky. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2001 XI Imagination and transcendental knowledge in Avicenna 337-354 Arabic Theology, Arabic Philosophy. From the Many to the One: Essays in Celebration of Richard M. Frank, ed. J.E. Montgomery. Leuven: Peeters, 2006 XII Intellect without limits: the absence of mysticism in Avicenna 1-22 Intellect and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy (Proceedings of the XI. International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, Porto 26-31 August 2002), eds M.C. Pacheco and J.F. Meirinhos. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006, pp. 351-372 XIII Avicenna: mysticism and the question of his “Oriental” philosophy 1-10 Encyclopaedia Iranica, III, 1987. London: Routledge, pp. 79-83 CONTENTS vii The Study of Avicenna and his Heritage XIV The heritage of Avicenna: the golden age of Arabic philosophy, 1000-ca. 1350 81-97 Avicenna and His Heritage. Acts of the International Colloquium, Leuven - Louvain-la-Neuve, September 8—11, 1999. Leuven: Leuven University Press 2002 XV Philosophy in the twelfth century: one view from Baghdad, or the repudiation of al-Ghazall 9-26 In the Age of Averroes: Arabic Philosophy in the Sixth/Twelfth Century, ed. P. Adamson. London - Turin: The Warburg Institute - Nino Aragno Editore, 2011 XVI Ibn Tufayl on Ibn Sma’s Eastern philosophy 222-241 Oriens 34, 1994 XVII The study of Avicenna. Status quaestionis atque agenda 45-69 Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 21, 2010 Index of subjects and Avicenna’s works 1-4 Index of names and places 1-7 Index of principal terms (Arabic, Greek) 1-2 Index of manuscripts 1 This volume contains xiv + 368 pages