Method, Structure, and Development in al-Fārābī’s Cosmology

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Method, Structure, and Development in al-Fārābī’s Cosmology is written by Damien Janos and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004217320 (ISBN 10) and 9789004217324 (ISBN 13).

This study—the first monograph devoted exclusively to al-Fārābī’s cosmology—provides a new interpretation of this thinker’s philosophical development through an analysis of the Greek and Arabic sources and a contextualization of his life and thought in the cultural and intellectual milieu of his time. It discusses key cosmological and metaphysical concepts articulated in his works, with a special focus on celestial causation, intellection, and motion. This book also examines al-Fārābī’s cosmological method and particularly the connection between astronomy, physics, and metaphysics. The result is a reassessment of al-Fārābī’s cosmology vis-à-vis late-antique Greek philosophical trends and a clearer understanding of how it creatively adapted and transformed this legacy to establish a new cosmological paradigm in Arabic thought.