Interpreting Avicenna : science and philosophy in medieval Islam : proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group / edited by Jon McGinnis with the assistance of David C. Reisman.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

xviii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

The Pseudo-Avicennan Corpus, I: methodological considerations / David C. Reisman -- Ibn Sīnā on chance in the Physics of aš-Šifāʼ / Catarina Belo -- On the moment of substantial change: a vexed question in the history of ideas / Jon McGinnis -- Intellect, soul and body in Ibn Sīnā: systematic synthesis and development of the Aristotelian, Neoplatonic and Galenic theories / Robert E. Hall -- Non-discursive thought in Avicenna's commentary on the Theology of Aristotle / Peter Adamson -- The conception of the angle in the works of Ibn Sīnā and aš-Šīrāzī / Irina Luther -- Avicenna's argument for the existence of God: was he really influenced by the Mutakallimūn? / Ömer Mahir Alper -- Reconsidering Avicenna's position on God's knowledge of particulars / Rahim Acar -- The reception of Book B (Beta) of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the Ilāhīyāt of Avicenna's Kitāb aš-Šifāʼ / Amos Bertolacci -- The relation between form and matter: some brief observations on the 'homology argument' (Ilāhīyāt, II. 4) and the deduction of Fluxus / Olga Lizzini -- The three properties of prophethood in certain works of Avicenna and al-Ġazālī / M. Afifi al-Akiti -- Resurrection (maʻād) in the Persian Ḣayāt an-Nufūs of Ismāʻīl Ibn Muḥammad Rīzī: the Avicennan background / Roxanne D. Marcotte.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and indexes.