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Avicenna
Lenn E. Goodman
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Description for Avicenna
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 352. 256 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPDF. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 18. Weight: 344.
In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran.
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801472541
SKU
V9780801472541
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About Lenn E. Goodman
Lenn E. Goodman is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His many books include most recently Islamic Humanism, In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age, and God of Abraham. Goodman is also the translator of such Arabic classics as Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan ... Read more
Reviews for Avicenna
Anyone who is at all familiar with the writings of the medieval Islamic philosopher Avicenna recognizes him as a philosophically penetrating and original thinker who deserves a place alongside the more familiar major figures in the history of Western philosophy.... This book presents the reader with an overview of the principal tenets of Avicenna's philosophy that both sets them in ... Read more