Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle “De generatione et corruptione”<\/p>\n
Edition, Translation and Commentary<\/p>\n
This book contains a new edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic and preserved to this day, together with an extensive commentary. It is a compendium on the treatise De generatione et corruptione, written by the Imamite theologian and heresiographer Hasan b. M\u016bs\u0101 al-Nawbakht\u012b (fl. ca. 900). To this day, apart from the title of more than forty works and numerous fragments-taken mainly from his magnum opus, the Book of the Doctrines and Religions (Kit\u0101b al-\u0101r\u0101\u2019 wa-al-diy\u0101n\u0101t)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Sh\u00ee\u2019\u00ee Sects (Kit\u00e2b firaq al-sh\u00ee\u2019a), was known to us. The text sheds new light in several ways: firstly, on the the Arabic philosophical tradition, since it was composed during the obscure period between al-Kind\u012b and al-F\u0101r\u0101b\u012b (roughly, the 2nd half of the 9th c.); secondly, on the Greek tradition, since the author makes extensive use of Alexander\u2019s lost commentary on De generatione; thirdly, on the formative period of sh\u012b\u2019ism, since it helps us to reconstruct how the author borrowed from the Aristotelian tradition the tools necessary to build up a new anthropology compatible with the doctrine of the Occultation which he inaugurated at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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