The philosophical epistolary exchange between Avicenna and al-Bīrūnī

阿维森纳和阿尔·巴鲁纳之间的哲学书信交流

• 批准号: 500787098
• 负责人: Paul Hullmeine
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Philosophie VI: Spätantike und arabische Philosophie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/500787098?language=en
• 关键词: philosophical; epistolary; exchange; between; Avicenna

This project has as its focus an epistolary exchange between two of the most important figures in the history of philosophy and science in the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and al-Bīrūnī. Written around 1000 CE, the correspondence began when al-Bīrūnī posed a series of questions to a young, but already well-known, Avicenna. These deal especially with topics in Aristotelian natural philosophy. Avicenna composed replies, which elicited a further round of critical responses from al-Bīrūnī. Finally, a student of Avicenna’s answered these rejoinders. Happily, all four stages of the correspondence are preserved today, in a text that has not yet been adequately translated or studied. This is the task of the proposed research, which would issue in a monograph giving an improved Arabic text, the first reliable translation of the entire correspondence into any European language, along with a detailed commentary explaining the historical and philosophical issues raised by the exchange. The project will bring this important text to a wider audience and help historians of science and philosophy understand its discussion of such topics as the eternity of the world, void, optics, elemental theory, and cosmology. The resulting book will also situate the correspondence within the writings of both Avicenna and al-Bīrūnī and it will cast light on the way in which they receive Aristotelian and late ancient philosophy.

这个项目的重点是伊斯兰世界哲学和科学史上最重要的两位人物伊本·萨尼（阿维森纳）和al-Bīrūnī之间的书信交流。这封书信写于公元1000年左右，当时al-Bīrūnī向年轻但已经出名的阿维森纳提出了一系列问题。这些书特别涉及亚里士多德自然哲学的主题。阿维森纳写了一些回复，这引起了al-Bīrūnī上又一轮批评的回应。最后，阿维森纳的一个学生回答了这些问题。令人高兴的是，所有四个阶段的通信都以一种尚未被充分翻译或研究的文本保存至今。这是拟议研究的任务，该研究将出版一本专著，提供改进的阿拉伯语文本，第一次将整个通信翻译成任何欧洲语言，并附有详细的评论，解释交流中提出的历史和哲学问题。该项目将把这本重要的文本带给更广泛的读者，并帮助科学和哲学史学家理解它对世界永恒、虚空、光学、元素理论和宇宙学等主题的讨论。由此产生的书也将在阿维森纳和al-Bīrūnī的著作中定位通信，它将照亮他们接受亚里士多德和晚期古代哲学的方式。