The Metaphysics of The Healing

Ibn Sīnā2005book

Metaphysics and accounts of intellect in the Arabic philosophical tradition. Follow the distinction between what something is and whether it exists.

Brigham Young University Press, Arabic–English edition, 2005 · Translated by Michael E. Marmura

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