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• Published in: Arabic sciences and philosophy : a historical journal Vol. 17; no. 2; p. 199
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.09.2007
• Subjects: Averroes (1126-1198); Averroes (1126-98); Traditions
• ISSN: 0957-4239; 1474-0524
• DOI: 10.1017/S0957423907000331

Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, vol. 17 (2007) pp. 199202doi:10.1017/S0957423907000331 [p30] 2007 Cambridge University Press Boethius, Averroes, and Ab al-Barakt al-Bagdd, Witnesses to Themistiuss Works on Aristotles TopicsAhmad Hasnawi Aristotles Topics, and especially, as far as the subject of this study is concerned, their central books (II-VII), played a role of central importance both in the medieval Latin and in the Arabic logical tradition. With a view to reconstructing the work(s) of this author, we have here collected and translated the passages that are attributed to him explicitly (with the exception of one of them) in Averroes Middle Commentary on the Topics, comparing them, where necessary, to the testimonies collected by Boethius in his De topicis differentiis. Subject and Body in Bas*ran Mutazilism, Or: Mutazilite Kalm and the Fear of TrivialitySophia Vasalou In this paper, my aim is to o#er some comments on the study of Mutazilite kalm, framed around the study of a particular episode in the Mutazilite ABSTRACTS 200 ABSTRACTS dispute about man (m huwa al-insn) a question with a deceptively Aristotelian cadence that is not too di$cult to dispel. The Continuous Drawing of Conic Sections in the Renaissance: Optical and Perspectival Applications, a Heritage of the Arabic Mathematical TraditionDominique Raynaud The perfect compass, used by al-Qh, al-Sijz and his successors for the continuous drawing of conic sections, reappeared after a long eclipse in the works of Renaissance mathematicians like Francesco Barozzi in Venice.