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Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Among the Greek philosophical disciplines transmitted to the Arabic and Islamic world, metaphysics was of paramount importance, as its pivotal role in the overall history of the transmission of Greek thought into Arabic culture makes evident. The beginnings of Arabic philosophy coincide with the production of the first extensive translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, within the circle of translators associated with the founder of falsafa, al-Kindī. The so-called “early” or “classical” phase of Arabic philosophy ends with the largest commentary on the Metaphysics available in Western philosophy, by Ibn Rushd (Averroes). The following “golden” age of this trend continues to be primarily concerned with metaphysics, turning from the effort of interpreting the intricacies of Aristotle’s canonical text towards the process of assimilating the model of metaphysical science first outlined by al-Fārābī and then implemented by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). In the incipit of the Metaphysics according to t

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