Avicenna

Further Reading

Context and Background:
P. Adamson and R.C. Taylor, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Jules L. Janssens, An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina (1970-1989). Including Arabic and Persian publications and Turkish and Russian references (Leuven, Leuven University Press, 1991)

Jules L. Janssens, An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina. First supplement (1990-1994) (Louvain-La-Neuve: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études médiévales, 1999)

Interpretations of Avicenna:
Herbert Alan Davidson, Avicenna's proof of the existence of God as a necessarily existent Being. In Islamic Philosophical Theology. Edited by Parviz Morewedge. (Albany: State University of New York Press 1979. pp. 165-187)

Herbert Alan Davidson, Avicenna's proof of the existence of a Being Necessarily Existent by Virtue of Itself. In Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987. pp. 281-310)

Herbert Alan Davidson, Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect:Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect and Theories of Human Intellect (New York: Oxford University Press 1992)