Porphyry’s Isagoge between Baġdād and Hamaḏān: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī and Avicenna on Individuality

Porphyry’s Isagoge between Baġdād and Hamaḏān: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī and Avicenna on IndividualityMedioevoSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/FHTY58VE/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.SilviaDi VincenzoPorphyry’s Isagoge between Baġdād and Hamaḏān: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī and Avicenna on Individualityhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/FHTY58VEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/FHTY58VEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/FHTY58VEMedioevo432018123-150The Kitāb al-Šifāʾ is by far the philosophical summa in which Avicenna’s allegiance to previous exegetical tradition is most evident, thus representing a unique standpoint to the inquiry into Avicenna’s sources. The present paper aims at showing how the Kitāb al-Madḫal of the Šifāʾ is able to provide new insights into Avicenna’s reception of Porphyry’s Isagoge and to allow a more precise study of Avicenna’s acquaintance with previous and contemporary literature on the subject. As a result of the survey, new evidence is found that allows reconstructing a debate between Avicenna and leading Baġdād Aristotelians like Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAdī concerning the notion of ‘individual’ in logic. Di Vincenzo, Silvia. “Porphyry’s Isagoge between Baġdād and Hamaḏān: Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAdī and Avicenna on Individuality.” Medioevo 43 (2018): 123–50. Silvia Di Vincenzo, Porphyry’s Isagoge between Baġdād and Hamaḏān: Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAdī and Avicenna on Individuality,” Medioevo 43 (2018): 123–50.