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Al-As'ilah wa'l-Ajwibah: Questions & Answers by Al-Biruni and Ibn Sina (Arabic) - Hardcover
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Mehdi Mohaghegh (Author)
ISBN: 978-983-99002-1-8
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)
Year: 1995
Pages: 102 pages
Weight: 320 g
Al-As’ilah wa’l-Ajwibah was first published in 1914. Then a copy edited by Dr. Helmy Zia Ulken appeared in 1953, which was reprinted for the last time in 1973 on the occasion of the al-Biruni International Congress. The present edition also contains the comments of Abu ‘Abdillah Faqih al-Ma’sumi, never before included in past editions of this work.
As professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr mentions in his ‘Prolegomena’ to the text (reproduced here from its original publication for the Al-Biruni International Congress mentioned earlier), this “series of questions and answers exchanged between two of the colossal figures if Islamic thought” aids not only in the understanding of both the thoughts of the two masters, but also that of Aristotle (al-Biruni has ten questions pertaining to the First Doctor’s De Caelo) and the Islamic Peripatetic school represented by Ibn Sina and his student al-Ma’sumi. Thus the book bring into focus the fundamental points and differences within the different schools of natural philosophy, especially that of the Muslim Peripatetics, who al-Biruni identifies with Aristotle himself. This is vitally significant for the study of the history of science, since the main school for most Muslim sciencetist in Islamic civilization can be traced to the Peripatetics. However, the anti-Aristotelian current, represented by al-Biruni, also existed during that period and must be understood in order to understand the history of islamic science. This book is therefore both a valueable and engaging source material for the study of not just Islamic philosophy and science, but also the history of science and philosophy.