Abstract
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of Ibn Sina's escape to Hamadan and seeking refuge with the emir Ala ad-Dawla of Isfahan. While playing a central role in all the political and military turmoil, he managed simultaneously to direct his intellectual energies to create al-Shifa, which is variously rendered as The Healing, The Book of Healing, The Book of the Remedy, and The Cure. Ibn Sina primarily aims to cure ignorance and heal the soul. Thus, he divided his project to correspond with Aristotle's categories of knowledge and attempted to cure confusion and ignorance. The chapter mentions how Ibn Sina was the greatest medieval representative of the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded by Aristotle’s interpreters
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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