Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle "De generatione et corruptione"

Edition, Translation and Commentary
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-11-044364-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 19, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 934 g

Reihe: Scientia Graeco-Arabica

This book contains a new edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic and preserved to this day, together with an extensive commentary. It is a compendium on the treatise , written by the Imamite theologian and heresiographer Hasan b. Musa al-Nawbakhti (fl. ca. 900). To this day, apart from the title of more than forty works and numerous fragments-taken mainly from his magnum opus, the Book of the Doctrines and Religions (Kitab al-ara’ wa-al-diyanat)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shî’î Sects (Kitâb firaq al-shî’a), was known to us. The text sheds new light in several ways: firstly, on the the Arabic philosophical tradition, since it was composed during the obscure period between al-Kindi and al-Farabi (roughly, the 2 half of the 9 c.); secondly, on the Greek tradition, since the author makes extensive use of Alexander’s lost commentary on De generatione; thirdly, on the formative period of shi’ism, since it helps us to reconstruct how the author borrowed from the Aristotelian tradition the tools necessary to build up a new anthropology compatible with the doctrine of the Occultation which he inaugurated at the time.

Zielgruppe

Classical philologists, historians of philosophy and natural scie

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rashed, Marwan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik

Über Autor(innen)

Marwan Rashed, Universität Paris-Sorbonne.

Marwan Rashed, Universität Paris-Sorbonne.