진학프로석·박사 채용 접수 플랫폼

In the framework of the Research Grant FIS 2021 “SPACE: The System of Philosophy in Arabic: Charting the Encyclopaedias”, the selected post-doc collaborators will provide a structural and doctrinal analysis of a representative sample of the encyclopedias of philosophy written by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037), the champion of Arabic-Islamic philosophy in its formative phase and inventor of the literary genre of the philosophical summa. Special attention will be devoted to Avicenna’s masterpiece Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (Book of the Cure /Healing), an integrated collection of 22 treatises (of logic, 9; natural philosophy, 8; mathematics, 4; and metaphysics, with an appendix on practical philosophy) of more than 5000 printed pages, which will serve as meter of comparison with two other minor summae of Avicenna – al-Ḥikma al-ʿArūḍiyya (Philosophy for ʿArūḍī) and the Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī (Book of Science for ʿAlāʾ ad-Dawla), chosen for their chronological and linguistic relevance. Main goal of the research scholarships is the analysis of these encylopedias from the point of view of their format and arrangement, with special focus on the systematic interrelation of the distinct philosophical sciences constituting them, and on the structure of the encyclopedia of philosophy underlying them. The privileged focus of attention will be the logic sections of these summae.