[1] Avicenna.al-Shifa. Al-Tabi iyyat،Kitab al-nafs، edited by F.Rahman(london:oxford univ.press،1959)(quoted as:De anima، ed. Rahman) ch. V5،p. 235، line 7.
[1] . F. Rahman, Prophecy in Islam: Philosophy and Orthodoxy (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1958), p. 15. Cf. L. Gardet, La Pensee religieuse d'Avicenne (Paris: J. Vrin, 1951 ), p. 151: 'II n'y a done pas abstraction proprement dite
[1]. H. A. Davidson, Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect (New York, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992) p 94.
[1]. Davidson, Alfarabi, p. 93.
[1]. J. A. Weisheipl, "Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Avicenna and Aquinas", in Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages, edited by L.D. Rogers (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for medieval and early Renaissance studies, 1982), p. 150. Cf. D. Black, "Avicenna on the Ontological and Epistemic Status of Fictional Beings", Documenti e studi sulla tradi::.ione filosojzca medievale 8 (1997), p. 445: ' ... he denies the reality of abstraction as a cogn itive process'. Cf. as probable sources for this line of interpretation, F. Brentano, Die Psychologie des Aristoteles (Mainz: Kirchheim, 1867), p. 14 ('das Sinnliche hort auf die Quelle des geistigen Erkennens zu sein') and Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, 2.74, and idem, Summa theolog ia1.84.4.c
[1] . Avicenna, De anima V,5, ed. Rahman, pp. 235-6.
[1] . A.-M. Goichon, La Distinction de !'essence et de !'existence d'apres lbn Szna (Paris: Desclee de Brouwer, 1937), p. 309: "Mais !'intelligible est-il abstrait par l'ame ou donne par l'Intellect actif? En rigueur de termes, ni l'un ni l'autre".
[1]. See D. Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988), pp. 79-145; M. Marmura, "Plotting the Course of Avicenna's Thought", Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), pp. 334- 336; J. Michot, "La Reponse d'Avicenne a Bahmanyar et al-Kirmani", Le Museon 110 (1997), pp. 153-163. Cf. also Michot's earlier book La destinee de l' homme selon Avicenne (Lou vain: Peeters, 1986), pp. 6-7, and L. E. Goodman, Avicenna (London/New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 1-48.
[1]. See P. Aubenque, T. Kobusch, L. Oeing-Hanhoff et al., "Abstraktion", Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophic (Basel: Schwabe and Co, 1971-), vol. 1, pp. 42-65درباب تمایز توماس آکویناس میان انتزاع کردن و تفکیک نمودن بنگرید: J. F. Wippel, "Metaphysics and Separatio in Thomas Aquinas", in idem, Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas, Washington,. D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1984, pp. 69-82. Cf. Also (on Alexander of Aphrodisias, Boethius, Abelard and Avicenna): A. De Libera, L'art des generalites. Theories de l' abstraction (Paris: Aubier, 1999).
