The 'Metaphysica' of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā)

In this book, first published in 1973, Professor Parviz Morewedge, an expert on Islamic philosophy and mysticism, provides a critical exposition of one text of ibn Sina (Avicenna), the great Persian philosopher who lived from 980 to 1037. The text is his Metaphysica in the Danish Nama-I ‘ala’I ( The Book of Scientific Knowledge ). In addition to a translation of the text from Persian into English, this edition includes a critical commentary on the major arguments found in the text, and notes and