Description
In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran.
Author: Lenn E. Goodman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 12/21/2005
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 7.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780801472541
ISBN10: 0801472547
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers
- Philosophy | Eastern
About the Author
Lenn E. Goodman is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His many books include most recently Islamic Humanism, In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age, and God of Abraham. Goodman is also the translator of such Arabic classics as Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and The Case of the Animals vs Man before the King of the Jinn.