Partitioning Texts, Partitioning Philosophy: Books, Treatises, and Teachings in Avicenna's oeuvre

This talk will explore the lexicon of partition (kitāb, book, maqāla, treatise, fann, section, taʿlīm, teaching, ǧuzʾ, part, ǧumla, whole) in Avicenna's oeuvre (with a specific focus on the Šifāʾ and the Qānūn) as a vantage point to unravel the criteria he uses to conceive the internal organization of his works and how these criteria reflect his partition of philosophy and his idea of philosophical practice

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