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Explore a groundbreaking scholarly investigation into how early Arabic philosophers challenged Aristotelian thought through arguments about finite power. This volume traces John Philoponus's revolutionary claim that the world, being a finite body with finite power, cannot be everlasting, then follows this intellectual thread through the works of three crucial Arabic thinkers active before Avicenna: Ab l- ayr Ibn Suw r, Ab al- asan al- mir , and Ab Sahl al-Mas . Each philosopher engaged uniquely with Philoponus's arguments, developing novel interpretations that shaped medieval Islamic philosophy. Part of the prestigious Scientia Graeco-Arabica series (volume 37), this book bridges ancient Greek and Islamic philosophical traditions, offering historians and philosophy scholars fresh perspectives on how power, possibility, and cosmology were understood during this transformative period between late antiquity and the early Islamic intellectual golden age.

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Examines Philoponus's finite power argument and its revolutionary challenge to Aristotelian eternalism in the ancient world.

Analyses three innovative Arabic philosophers-Ibn Suw r, al- mir , and al-Mas -who reinterpreted Philoponus's ideas in original ways.

Published by De Gruyter as volume 37 in the Scientia Graeco-Arabica series, a leading academic press for historical-philosophical scholarship.

Bridges Greek and Arabic intellectual traditions, illuminating how ideas transmitted and transformed across cultures in medieval philosophy.

Essential reading for scholars studying cosmology, metaphysics, and the philosophical foundations of Islamic thought before Avicenna's era.

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Brand: De Gruyter
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 3111324923
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 November 2023
Listed Since: 05 June 2023

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