Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitab al-Sifa'

This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d. 1037 C.E.), one of the major exponents of Arabic philosophy: the Ilahiyyat (Science of Divine Things) of the Kitab al-Sifa' (Book of the Cure), known in the Latin Middle Ages as Liber de Philosophia Prima sive Scientia Divina. The first part of the book (on the Arabic transla...