Download or read book The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb Al-Šifāơ written by Amos Bertolacci and published by Islamic Philosophy, Theology a. This book was released on 2006 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The systematic comparison of Avicenna's Il'hiyy't of the `if?' with Aristotle's Metaphysics, accomplished for the first time in the present volume, provides a detailed account of Avicenna's reworking of the epistemological profile and contents of the Metaphysics and a comprehensive investigation of this latter's transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.