Publications List
Edited by Robert Wisnovsky, Ph.D. 1994.
Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a…
Lewis B. Ware, Ph.D. 1973.
Lewis B. Ware, Ph.D. 1973.
Lewis B. Ware, Ph.D. 1973.
Lewis B. Ware, Ph.D. 1973.
Edited by Ami Ayalon, Ph.D. 1980
Focusing on Near Eastern history in Mamluk and Ottoman times, this book, dedicated to Michael Winter, stresses elements of variety and continuity in the history of the Near East, an area of study which has traditionally attracted little attention from Islamists.
Ranging over the period from…
Lev Weitz, Ph.D. 2013.
In the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of autonomous religious traditions, each with distinct doctrines, rituals, and institutions. Outside the world of theology, however,…
An analysis of the sources and evolution of the metaphysics of Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. 1037 AD) - known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna - this book focuses on the answers Avicenna and his predecessors gave to two fundamental questions: what is the soul and how does it cause the body? and…
This volume contains case studies that examine how medieval cultures (western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish) adopted ideas from the past and from each other in fields such as philosophy, literature, religion, and medicine.
In this volume the McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in…
Edited by Robert Wisnovsky, Ph.D. 1994.
The philosopher and physician Abū ‘Alī al-Husayn ibn ‘Abdallâh ibn Sīnā (d. 1037 CE), known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna, was one of the most influential thinkers of the Islamic and European Middle Ages. Yet for a great number of scholars today Avicenna’s thought remains inaccessible. Because he wrote almost all his works in…
John E. Woods, Ph.D. 1974.
