Ibn Sina’s Metaphysics (opens in new tab)

Avicenna reads his main reference—Aristotle’s Metaphysics—in the light of two interrelated traditions: that of the Late Ancient commentators (e.g., Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius, Ammonius of Hermias) and that of the Neo-Platonic writings known in the Arabic world—the so-called Plotiniana and Procliana arabica[1]—part of which were ascribed to Aristotle himself. He consequently reinterprets Aristotle’s Metaphysics and gives an original structure to his own text (Bertolacci 2006: Ch. 5; ...