The Necessary Light: Ibn Sina’s Metaphysics of Existence
Ibn Sina (known in the West as Avicenna), one of the greatest polymaths of the Islamic Golden Age, did not author a book titled The Metaphysics of The Healing per se — rather, this phrase refers to a central section of his monumental philosophical work Al-Shifa (The Book of Healing), a vast encyclopedic text covering logic, natural sciences, mathematics…
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