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In Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders, Michael A. Rapoport provides a philological and interpretive guide for critically reading and interpreting Ibn Sīnā’s (Avicenna, d. 1037) most challenging and influential text. Rapoport argues that chapters VII-X of the Pointers present scientific explanations for phenomena related to the human soul – from intellection to divination, magic, and marvels – within the framework of Ibn Sīnā’s Metaphysics of the Rational Soul. This book dispels widespread notions that the Pointers represents Ibn Sīnā’s mystical or Sufi philosophy and therefore stands apart from the rest of his corpus.

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Author:   Michael Rapoport
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   122
Weight:   0.696kg
ISBN:  

9789004540613

ISBN 10:   900454061
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Chronology of Ibn Sīnā’s Works Notes on Sources, Presentation, Transliteration, and Translation Introduction  1 Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism  2 Metaphysics of the Rational Soul  3 The Uniqueness of the Pointers  4 Editions and Translations of the Pointers and Reminders  5 Objectives, Methodology, and Structure  6 Overview of Ibn Sīnā’s Internal Faculties 1 The Soul’s Independence from the Body  1 The Rational Soul’s Independence from the Body  2 Intellect and Intelligible Do Not Unite  3 God’s Knowledge of Particulars  4 Evil and the Order of the Good  5 Ibn Sīnā, Optimist 2 The Soul’s Ultimate Destination  1 Internal Pleasures Are Superior to External Pleasures  2 The Nature of Pleasure and Pain  3 Awareness of Pleasure and Pain  4 Pleasure and Pain in the Afterlife  5 Ranking Beings in Terms of Joy  6 Returning to the Final Destination 3 The Soul’s Intellectual Development  1 Differentiating Knowers from Non-knowers  2 The “Stages” (darajāt) of the Human Intellect in Relation to Secondary Intelligibles  3 Knowledge (ʿirfān) and the Highest Stages  4 Characteristics of the Knower  5 A New Metaphor for a Familiar Epistemology 4 The Soul, Science, and the Supernatural  1 Marvelous Feats  2 Imaginative Knowledge  3 Motive Power  4 Naturalizing the Supernatural 5 Returning to Ibn Sīnā’s Mysticism/Sufism  1 Non-standard Epistemology  2 Union with the Divine  3 The Impossibility of Union for Ibn Sīnā Conclusion  1 If Not Sufism or Mysticism, then What?  2 Concluding Remarks Appendix 1: Comparison between Pointers and Ibn Sīnā’s Summae Appendix 2: Comparison between Pointers and Ibn Sīnā’s Monographs Bibliography Index

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Michael A. Rapoport, Ph.D. (2018), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. His research on Ibn Sīnā and Arabic philosophy has appeared in Oriens and Nazariyat.

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