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Method, Structure, and Development in Al-Fārābī's Cosmology

Method, Structure, and Development in Al-Fārābī's Cosmology

Janos, Damien

Hardcover

PhilosophyIslam

ISBN10: 9004206159
ISBN13: 9789004206151
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 2 2012
Pages: 434
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Winner of the 21st World Book Award of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2014

This study--the first monograph devoted exclusively to al-Fārābī's cosmology--provides a new interpretation of this thinker's philosophical development through an analysis of the Greek and Arabic sources and a contextualization of his life and thought in the cultural and intellectual milieu of his time. It discusses key cosmological and metaphysical concepts articulated in his works, with a special focus on celestial causation, intellection, and motion. This book also examines al-Fārābī's cosmological method and particularly the connection between astronomy, physics, and metaphysics. The result is a reassessment of al-Fārābī's cosmology vis-à-vis late-antique Greek philosophical trends and a clearer understanding of how it creatively adapted and transformed this legacy to establish a new cosmological paradigm in Arabic thought.

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