Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī, commentary on Aristotle De generatione et corruptione
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Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī, commentary on Aristotle De generatione et corruptione
（Scientia Graeco-Arabica / herausgegeben von Marwan Rashed, Bd. 19）
De Gruyter, c2015
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Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Nawbaḫtī, commentary on Aristotle "De generatione et corruptione"
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Arabic text and parallel English translation on opposite pages, commentary in English
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-407) and indexes
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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. Musa al-Nawbakhti (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 (Kitab al-ara' wa-al-diyanat)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shi'i Sects (Kitab firaq al-shi'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-Kindi and al-Farabi (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 shi'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.
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