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Winner of The Iranian World Prize for the Book of the Year 2007 in the Philosophy and Mysticism category.

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1465 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Study of a classical critic of Avicenna's views on the existence and nature of God. ... Read more

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DescriptionProbing in Islamic Philosophy, Studies in th Philosophies of Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and Other Major Muslim Thinkers: For the historian of ideas, interest in medieval Islamic philosophy is not something new. But thus interest has been intensified with the growth of a fuller awareness of the impact this philosophy has had on the development of European thought. Over emphasis of this influence, however, can distract from treating the Islamic philosophers in their own right, that is, as philosophers who have developed ideas of their own that are intrinsic in value. The approach of these studies is thus to probe and analyze what these thinkers actually said.The first part is devoted to Ibn Sina (Avicenna), noted for his refining the distinction between essence and existence, which constitutes the basis for his proof of God’s existence and for his significant theory of the universals. The second part is devotes to Avicenna’s theologian critic, Ghazali, noted for his argument that a necessary causal connection between natural events can be proved neither logically nor empirically. The third part pertains to various central themes in Islamic philosophy and includes discussions of the thought of such philosophers as Kindi, Razi, Ibn Tufayl, and Ibn Rushd (Averroes). It concludes with a discussion of on the issues that divided the Islamic theologians, namely whether the value of the moral act is intrinsic to it or whether it is solely derived from the religious law. VISIT http://academicpublishing.binghamton.edu/bookhtml/1-58684-254-4.html for chapter information. ... Read more

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Avicenna, 980-1037; views on; Islam; doctrines; controversy work. ... Read more

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Few figures have been of such enduring importance as the Persian philosopher and physician Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna (978-1037 A.D.) Ibn Sina and Mysticism explores the fourth part of Ibn Sina's most comprehensive book, al-Isharat wat-Tanbihat--or Remarks and Admonitions--a book which Ibn Sina described as "the cream of the truth." The book includes a full translation of al-Isharat wat-Tanbihat, along with a critical discussion of the work in the context of Ibn Sina's other writings, as well as a detailed explication of the translating process. ... Read more

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Soul; Islamic philosophy; Avicenna, 980-1037; Ghazzåalåi, 1058-1111; comparative study. ... Read more

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Avicenna, 980-1037; bio-bibliography. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ab? Al? al-Husayn ibn Abdull?h ibn S?n?, latinisiert Avicenna (* 980 in Afschana bei Buchara im persischen Samanidenreich, heute Usbekistan; ? Juni 1037 in Hamadan, heute Iran) war ein persischer Arzt, Physiker, Philosoph, Jurist, Mathematiker, Astronom und Alchemist. Er zählte zu den berühmtesten Persönlichkeiten seiner Zeit. Einige seiner philosophischen Ausarbeitungen wurden von späteren Mystikern des Sufismus rezipiert. George Sarton bezeichnete Ibn Sina als ?den berühmtesten Wissenschaftler des Islam und vielleicht aller Zeiten?. ... Read more