On Aristotle's Metaphysics: An Annotated Translation of the So-Called Epitome

by Ibn Rushd

This book contains the first English translation of Abūl-Walīd Ibn Rushd's (Averroes') so-called Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics . The original Arabic text was composed around 1160 as a sort of appendix to a series of compendia of Aristotle's works on natural philosophy by the famous Andalusian philosopher. The two most interesting things about this work are the fact that Averroes restructures here the Aristotelian text according to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110220016
• ISBN13: 9783110220018
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary