The intellectual history of Islam has been filled with heated controversies in the form of vigorous debates and strenuous criticisms. The debates, which mainly happened primarily because of the insistence of a particular group of Muslim scholars in holding a perspective to be th…
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Object of the present dissertation is the reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the Kitab al-Sifa', Book of the Cure , by Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d. 1037 C.E.)--one of the greatest exponents of Arabic philosophy--with particular regard to the section entitled Ilahiyyat , [ Science…
The purpose of this dissertation is to establish a systematic account of Avicenna's philosophy of mind, incorporating his innovative views on the existence of the soul, self-awareness, perception and intentionality. In investigating Avicenna's philosophy of mind, I adopt a holis…
This dissertation begins with the Islamic philosopher Avicenna, who transforms Aristotle’s conception of the efficient cause in the Metaphysics of his Shifa’. Its first goal is to examine the arguments which constitute Avicenna’s metaphysical account of agency. Its second goal i…
Abu Hamid al-Ġazali (d. 505/1111) is one of the most influential Muslim theologians of all times. Yet, his vast literary output composed for varying audiences and with different goals in mind makes accurate interpretation of his thought extremely complicated. Did he have a coher…
How did medieval Arabic literary critics evaluate poetry? Despite the abundance of surviving medieval Arabic works on eloquence and poetics, we know very little about the factors critics took into account when judging the beauty of a line of poetry. Much of what is known seems t…
The Question of Being between Avicenna and Heritages investigates Avicenna's (Ibn Sina's; 980-1037) ontological, epistemological, mystic, and linguistic accounts of being (al-wujud ) while at the same time accounting for Martin Heidegger's critique of the history of metaphysics.…
The intention of this project is to explicate several arguments advanced in the esoteric treatise Al-Risalah al-Ad[dotbelow]h[dotbelow]awiyya fi amr al-Mac ad , Avicenna's treatise par excellence on the subject of resurrection. This study of Ad[dotbelow]h[dotbelow]awiyya is prim…
In this dissertation I will consider how two 13th century theologians, William of Auxerre (1156-1231) and St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274), explored the question, “Whether the same thing can be known (demonstratively) and (believed by faith)” (utrum idem sit scitum et creditum). B…
This dissertation examines the view of emotions found in the writings of the philosopher and medical doctor Avicenna (Ibn Sīna, d. 1098 CE). Avicenna is known to have influenced the course of cognitive psychology in the Muslim East and the Latin West, yet little has been written…
In this study, I have compared Avicenna's position concerning the nature of creative action and the beginning of the universe to that of Aquinas. As a preliminary, I discussed whether their theories can be examined on the same criteria; and affirmed that they can be because they…