{"id":2,"date":"2021-02-06T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arabic-philosophy.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-09-12T18:16:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:16:42","slug":"asg-iv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.arabic-philosophy.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Avicenna Study Group IV (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Hidden Treasure:
Editorial, Historical, and Philosophical Issues in Avicenna\u2019s \u201cMinor\u201d Works (ras\u0101\u02beil<\/em> )<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


Un tr\u00e9sor cach\u00e9 :
Questions \u00e9ditoriales, historiques et philosophiques sur les \u0153uvres \u201cmineures\u201d (ras\u0101\u02beil<\/em> ) d\u2019Avicenne<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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NEWS: The conference is now a hybrid event \u2013 follow it on Zoom here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This conference will continue the successful format of the Avicenna Study Group (three meetings in 2001, 2002, and 2021 with two volumes of proceedings in 2003 and 2004 and a third volume forthcoming) and will turn to another pivotal topic in the study of Avicenna and his philosophy: the papers will explore the corpus<\/em> of Avicenna\u2019s widely neglected so-called \u201cminor\u201d works and investigate their relevance for understanding Avicenna\u2019s thought and influence, both on the Eastern and the Western intellectual tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The corpus<\/em> of smaller treatises, tales, and letters on various topics attributed to Avicenna poses particular challenges both in terms of philosophical and philological analysis. In 2014, Dimitri Gutas (Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition<\/em>, 2nd ed.) provided a revised list of works that included, alongside the well-known summae<\/em>, also the lesser-known shorter writings. While the authenticity of some of these ras\u0101\u02beil<\/em> remains questionable, it is clear that they all shaped in different degrees the perception on Avicenna throughout the centuries and, thus, deserve more attention from scholars to bring to light their variegated history of transmission and reception as well as their value for understanding Avicenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of these smaller texts remain unedited and discuss topics that are rarely studied or appear otherwise difficult to integrate into the systematic framework of Avicenna\u2019s philosophy. They may enrich or surely substantiate our own view of Avicenna, while inauthentic treatises could provide important insight into Avicennian circles and later forgeries may have been sources of misconceptions and erroneous or otherwise peculiar readings among interpreters in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against this background, the fourth meeting of the Avicenna Study Group aspires to set a new standard in dealing with the important corpus of Avicenna\u2019s \u201cminor\u201d works and welcomes rigorous and innovative contributions that could feature, for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n