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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- -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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- ISBN-13: 9789004206151
- ISBN-10: 9004206159
- Publisher: Brill
- Publish Date: March 2012
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 434
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