By Parviz Morewedge
In this e-book, first released in 1973, Professor Parviz Morewedge, a professional on Islamic philosophy and mysticism, offers a serious exposition of 1 textual content of ibn Sina (Avicenna), the good Persian thinker who lived from 980 to 1037. The textual content is his Metaphysica within the Danish Nama-I ‘ala’I (The publication of medical Knowledge). as well as a translation of the textual content from Persian into English, this variation incorporates a serious remark at the significant arguments present in the textual content, and notes and references to different texts of ibn Sina in addition to to appropriate texts of Greek philosophers, rather Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus. there's additionally a thesaurus of the most important phrases utilized in the Metaphysica, with their Persian, Arabic, Greek and Latin equivalents the place useful. This publication is worried basically to teach that even if within the textual content ibn Sina inns to the Aristotelian vocabulary and Neo-Platonic topics, and looks to be in accord with the Islamic culture, there's proof that many doctrines expressed by means of him might be thought of non-Greek and non-Islamic. those comprise his strange doctrine of Self (nafs) and the doctrine of the required Existent (wajib al-wujud). the writer makes an attempt to elucidate the level to which salient positive factors of ibn Sina’s place are in contract with what can be considered as Sufic doctrines.
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