Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of his philosophy. Contributions from leading scholars address a wide range of topics including Avicenna's life and works, conception of philosophy and achievement in logic and medicine. His ideas in the main areas of philosophy, such as epistemology, philosophy of religion and physics, are also analyzed. While serving as a general introduction to Avicenna's thought, this collection of critical essays also represents the cutting edge of scholarship on this most influential philosopher of the medieval era.

Explores the influence of Avicenna in Christianity as well as the Islamic and Jewish traditions

Provides an understanding of how parts of Avicenna's thought interrelate

Examines a wide range of areas of Avicenna's philosophy

Editor

Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
Peter Adamson is Professor of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and at King's College London. He is author of The Arabic Plotinus: a Philosophical Study of the So-Called 'Theology of Aristotle' (2002) and Al-Kindî (2006), and co-editor, with Richard C. Taylor, of The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge, 2004). He has edited numerous collected volumes on philosophy in the Islamic world.

Contributors

David C. Reisman, Dimitri Gutas, Tony Street, Jon McGinnis, Peter E. Pormann, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Deborah Black, Stephen Menn, Peter Adamson, Robert Wisnovsky, Gad Freudenthal, Mauro Zonta, Amos Bertolacci