Avicenna Livres

Ibn Sina's famous Canon of Medicine ( Qanun fi al-tibb ) comes to life in English with this translation. It is a clear and ordered Summa of all the medical knowledge of Ibn Sina's time augmented from his own observations. It is divided into five books. The first contains generalities concerning the human body, sickness, health and general treatment and therapeutics (the only volume translated here). The second contains the materia medica and the pharmacology of herbs. Three methods agreement, difference and concomitant variations are usually regarded as characteristic of modern science. The third book deals with special pathology, studied by organs, or rather by systems. The fourth book opens with the famous treatise on fevers; then follow the treatise on signs, symptoms, diagnostics and prognostics, minor surgery, tumors, wounds, fractures and bites and that on poisons. The fifth book contains the pharmacopoeia. Because the Canon constituted a monumental unity which maintained its authority until modern times it served as a basis for 700 years of medical teaching and practice and is a proven alternative medicine technique.

This work offers an English translation and commentary on a recent Arabic text by Avicenna, focusing on conditional propositions and syllogisms. It presents Avicenna's perspectives on the topic as they evolved throughout his life.

Exploring the intersection of science and philosophy, this first volume delves into the insights of a prominent thinker from late antiquity. It reexamines the legacy of Greek natural philosophy while also engaging with the physical theories proposed by Muslim speculative theologians. This work is a significant contribution to the understanding of the evolution of philosophical thought and its implications for healing and knowledge.

Focusing on conditional propositions and syllogisms, this work offers an English translation and commentary on a recent Arabic text by Avicenna (Ibn Sina). It explores his philosophical views on these logical constructs as they evolved throughout his lifetime, providing insights into his contributions to logic and reasoning. The book serves as a valuable resource for understanding Avicenna's influence on the field and the historical context of his ideas.

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Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) was and remains the pre-eminent Islamic philosopher. AL-MADKHAL, the first part of the logic of his masterwork AŠ-ŠHIFĀ, is a commentary of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) on Porphyry’s ISAGOGE. AL-MADKHAL is the only part of Avicenna’s logic included in the Medieval Latin translation of Avicenna’s works. There, known as the LOGICA, it had wide influence, especially in the thirteenth century. In addition to remarking on the text of the ISAGOGE in a very critical way, Avicenna gives an overview of his entire work. While Porphyry says that he will avoid difficult questions about universals, in contrast Avicenna considers their status. AL-MADKHAL contains a major discussion of Avicenna’s theory of the threefold distinction of quiddity, said by De Wulf to be the main medieval solution to the problem of universals. The translation comes with Notes and an Introduction, placing AL-MADKHAL in context.

The translation of Avicenna’s "commentary” on Aristotle’s Categories, Al-Maqūlāt (Part One, Volume Two of Aš-Šhifāʼ), is given here with explanatory notes. Avicenna does not paraphrase the text. Rather, as he states, he comments upon what the correct doctrines are. He offers original doctrines on such topics as paronymy, the ontological square in Categories 2, predication, the antepredicamental rule, the number of the categories, distinction of primary and first substance, an account of relation, as opposed to relationship, the ontology of mathematical objects, and the predication of contraries. Avicenna uses and refers to these doctrines in his scientific works, particularly in his metaphysics.

AVICENNA (Ibn Sīnā) was and remains the preeminent Islamic philosopher. His works on science, metaphysics and medicine have had great influence on Islamic culture as well as on the West. Less known in the West are his logical works, as only his treatise on Porphyry’s Isagoge was translated into Latin. A translation of Avicenna’s “commentary” on Aristotle’s On Interpretation, Al-‘Ibara, is given here: the first in a Western language. Avicenna does not paraphrase the text but instead comments upon what the correct doctrines are. He offers original doctrines on such topics as predication, the logical square of opposition, and future contingents. Avicenna uses and refers to these doctrines in his scientific works. This translation will contribute to a better understanding of Avicenna’s overall philosophy.