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The series is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs, it provides access to ancient scientific inquiry as it developed in a continuous tradition from Antiquity to the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.

• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• Changing Motion: The Place (and Misplace) of Avicenna’s Theory of Motion in the Post-Classical Islamic World
• Avicenna’s al-ḥikma al-mutaʿāliya. Meaning and Early Reception
• Avicennian Elements in Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Discussion of Place, Void and Directions in the al-Mabāḥiṯ al-mašriqiyya
• The Existence of Time in Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Maṭālib al-ʿāliya
• Time and Mind-Dependence in Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī’s Abkār al-afkār
• A Map of Averroes’ Criticism against Avicenna: Physics, De caelo, De generatione et corruptione and Meteorology
• Avicennian Sources in Abraham Ibn Daud’s Natural Philosophy?
• The Medieval Hebrew Reception of Avicenna’s Account of the Formation and Perseverance of Dry Land: Between Bold Naturalism and Fideist Literalism
• Notes on Anonymous Twelfth-Century Translations of Philosophical Texts from Arabic into Latin on the Iberian Peninsula
• Avicenna’s Influence on William of Auvergne’s Theory of Efficient Causes
• ‘Averroes ubique Avicennam persequitur’: Albert the Great’s Approach to the Physics of the Šifāʾ in the Light of Averroes’ Criticisms
• Avicenna’s Physics in Roger Bacon’s Communia naturalium
• Follower or Opponent of Aristotle? The Critical Reception of Avicenna’s Meteorology in the Latin World and the Legacy of Alfred the Englishman
• Index of Avicenna’s Works with Passages Cited
• Index of Names