Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbahti : commentary on Aristotle De generatione et corruptione / / edition, translation and commentary by Marwan Rashed

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461441103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 3-11-043680-9; 3-11-044458-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Collana: Scientia Graeco-Arabica, , 1868-7172 ; ; Band 19
• Disciplina: 185
• Soggetti: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies - Classical Studies - Ancient History; Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies - Classical Studies - Greek - Greek Authors; Philosophy, Medieval - History; HISTORY / Ancient / General; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction to the Critical Edition -- Sigla -- Summary of the Book On Generation and Destruction -- Introduction of the Work -- Section 1: On Generation, Destruction and the Categories -- Section 2: On Generation, Non-Being and Matter -- Section 3: On Matter, Form and Generation and Destruction -- Section 4: On Generation, Substance and Accidents -- Section 5: On the Different Kinds of Change and Change According to Place -- Section 6: On Growth -- Section 7: On Nutrition -- Section 8: On Contact -- Section 9: On Action and Passion -- Section 10: On Mixing -- Section 11: On the Elements -- Section 12: On the Reciprocal Change of the Elements -- Section 13: Formation of Homoeomers -- Section 14: Generation and Destruction and the Celestial Bodies -- The author of the treatise: al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī -- Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī as a philosopher -- Bibliography -- Index of Arabic ; words -- Index nominum -- Index locorum
• Sommario/riassunto: This book contains a new edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic and preserved to this day, together with an extensive commentary. It is a compendium on the treatise De generatione et corruptione, written by the Imamite theologian and heresiographer Hasan b. Mūsā al-Nawbakhtī (fl. ca. 900). To this day, apart from the title of more than forty works and numerous fragments-taken mainly from his magnum opus, the Book of the Doctrines and Religions (Kitāb al-ārā’ wa-al-diyānāt)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shî’î Sects (Kitâb firaq al-shî’a), was known to us. The text sheds new light in several ways: firstly, on the the Arabic philosophical tradition, since it was composed during the obscure period between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī (roughly, the 2nd half of the 9th c.); secondly, on the Greek tradition, since the author makes extensive use of Alexander’s lost commentary on De generatione; thirdly, on the formative period of shī’ism, since it helps us to reconstruct how the author borrowed from the Aristotelian tradition the tools necessary to build up a new anthropology compatible with the doctrine of the Occultation which he inaugurated at the time.