Arabic in the Sciences
The Theology of Aristotle
أثولوجيا أرسطوطاليس
An Arabic paraphrase of parts of the Enneads of the Greek philosopher Plotinus, who renewed Plato's philosophy, translated by Ibn Na'ima al-Himsi and corrected by the Arab philosopher al-Kindi. It was printed in Latin at Rome in 1519 as Aristotle's, was reprinted among his works until 1639, and its true source was proved only in 1883.
- Author
- Ibn Na'ima al-Himsi, corrected by al-Kindi (al-Kindi d. c. 870)
- Field
- Philosophy
- Arabic title
- أثولوجيا أرسطوطاليس (الميامر العشرة)
- Latin title
- Sapientissimi philosophi Aristotelis Stagiritae Theologia (Rome, 1519)
Europe knew it under a name not its author's.
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Sources
- Peter Adamson, «The Theology of Aristotle», Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- D. B. Haneberg, «Ueber das neuplatonische Werk: Theologie des Aristoteles», Sitzungsberichte der bayerischen Akademie (1862), pp. 1–12
- Mustafa Çağrıcı, «DIETERICI, Friedrich», TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi 9 (1994)
- Fred Purnell, «Francesco Patrizi», Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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