Avicenna

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780801472541
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Dec 2005
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.

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 and The Case of the Animals vs Man before the King of the Jinn.