Avicenna in Medieval Hebrew Translation

Avicenna in Medieval Hebrew Translation
Author: Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2014-11-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004281975

In this volume, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin offers an analysis of the fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of a major eleventh-century philosophical text: Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Najāt (The Book of Salvation), focusing on the psychology treatise on physics. The translator of this work was Ṭodros Ṭodrosi, the main Hebrew translator of Avicenna’s philosophical writings. This study includes a critical edition of Ṭodrosi’s translation, based on two manuscripts as compared to the Arabic edition (Cairo, 1938), and an appendix featuring the section on metaphysics. By analyzing Ṭodrosi’s language and terminology and making his Hebrew translation available for the first time, Berzin’s study will help enable scholars to trace the borrowings from Todrosi’s translations in Jewish sources, shedding light on the transmission and impact of Avicenna’s philosophy.

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics
Author: Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2011-12-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110215764

Avicenna’s Metaphysics (in Arabic: Ilâhiyyât) is the most important and influential metaphysical treatise of classical and medieval times after Aristotle. This volume presents studies on its direct and indirect influence in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin culture from the time of its composition in the early eleventh century until the sixteenth century. Among the philosophical topics which receive particular attention are the distinction between essence and existence, the theory of universals, the concept of God as the necessary being and the theory of emanation. It is shown how authors such as Averroes, Abraham ibn Daud, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus react to Avicenna’s metaphysical theories. The studies also address the philological and historical circumstances of the textual tradition in three different medieval cultures. The studies are written by a distinguished international team of contributors, who convened in 2008 to discuss their research in the Villa Vigoni, Italy.

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Physics and Cosmology

The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Physics and Cosmology
Author: Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1614516979

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) greatly influenced later medieval thinking about the earth and the cosmos, not only in his own civilization, but also in Hebrew and Latin cultures. The studies presented in this volume discuss the reception of prominent theories by Avicenna from the early 11th century onwards by thinkers like Averroes, Fahraddin ar-Razi, Samuel ibn Tibbon or Albertus Magnus. Among the topics which receive particular attention are the definition and existence of motion and time. Other important topics are covered too, such as Avicenna’s theories of vacuum, causality, elements, substantial change, minerals, floods and mountains. It emerges, among other things, that Avicenna inherited to the discussion an acute sense for the epistemological status of natural science and for the mental and concrete existence of its objects. The volume also addresses the philological and historical circumstances of the textual tradition and sheds light on the translators Dominicus Gundisalvi, Avendauth and Alfred of Sareshel in particular. The articles of this volume are presented by scholars who convened in 2013 to discuss their research on the influence of Avicenna’s physics and cosmology in the Villa Vigoni, Italy.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 10

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 10
Author: Robert Pasnau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-02-10
Genre:
ISBN: 0192871242

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. OSMP is an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

Interpreting Avicenna

Interpreting Avicenna
Author: Peter Adamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521190738

This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.

Entangled Histories

Entangled Histories
Author: Elisheva Baumgarten
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812248686

Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century provides a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural, and intellectual encounters coincided with heightened interfaith animosity.

Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture

Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture
Author: Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2022-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1802070737

This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched and accessibly written, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines as well as to the broader public. While the focus is on Jewish society and culture, critical context regarding the social history of ageing is provided by comparative perspectives from the Muslim world as well as from Spain and Provence and other areas of Christian Europe that were in the Arabic Andalusian cultural orbit. The study draws on many literary genres and scholarly disciplines: philosophy and theology, ethics and law, biblical commentary, Hebrew poetry, medical literature, and a host of marriage contracts, personal letters, and family and communal records from the Cairo Genizah. The result is a nuanced portrait of ageing as both a lived reality and a cultural paradigm in medieval Jewish society.

Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms

Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253042550

Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected work consider Jewish philosophy in the medieval period, when new genres and forms of written expression were flourishing in the wake of renewed interest in ancient philosophy. Many medieval Jewish philosophers were highly accomplished poets, for example, and made conscious efforts to write in a poetic style. This volume turns attention to the connections that medieval Jewish thinkers made between the literary, the exegetical, the philosophical, and the mystical to shed light on the creativity and diversity of medieval thought. As they broaden the scope of what counts as medieval Jewish philosophy, the essays collected here consider questions about how an argument is formed, how text is put into the service of philosophy, and the social and intellectual environment in which philosophical texts were produced.

Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the 13th Century

Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the 13th Century
Author: Gerrit Bos
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004382623

This volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works, especially those terms that do not feature in the current dictionaries at all, or insufficiently.

Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought

Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought
Author: Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030294226

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with regard to imagination and its role in cognition. Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer reconstructs the process by which metaphoric language is taken up by the imagination and the role of imagination in rational thought. If imagination is a necessary component of thinking, how is Maimonides’ idea of pure intellectual thought possible? An examination of select passages in the Guide, in both Judeo-Arabic and translation, shows how Maimonides’ attitude towards imagination develops, and how translations contribute to a bifurcation of reason and imagination that does not acknowledge the nuances of the original text. Finally, the author shows how Falaquera’s poetics forges a new direction for thinking about imagination.