Al-Farabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's De Interpretatione

by Al-Farabi, F.W. Zimmermann (Editor)

Drawing on a new study of the Arabic manuscripts, Zimmermann here provides an introduction and notes for this treatise-- written by the first major representative of medieval Arabic Aristotelianism--on Aristotle's study of the simple, unconditional proposition and future contingents.

440 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 1981

About the author

Al-Farabi (/ˌælfəˈrɑːbi/; Arabic: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابی Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī;, known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872[2] in Fārāb – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), Born c. 872 Fārāb on the Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in modern Kazakhstan or Faryāb in Khorāsān (modern day Afghanistan) and Died in Damascus, Syria
He was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar.
In Arabic philosophical tradition, he is known with the honorific "the Second Master", after Aristotle. He is credited with preserving the original Greek texts during the Middle Ages because of his commentaries and treatises, and influencing many prominent philosophers, like Avicenna and Maimonides. Through his works, he became well-known in the East as well as the West.

Reviews

[Sumeyye Pa · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is so much hard work in this book. Not only the book itself but also the footnotes are a treasure.