Averroës on Aristotle’s Criticism of his Predecessors:

An annotated translation of the long commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics A

BIBLIOGRAPHY, and abbreviations used in endnotes           

{In addition to titles listed here, bibliographic information for some works that are only listed once in the notes is given there.}

A. Aristotle (q.v.)

Albertus Magnus, Opera Omnia, ed. B. Geyer (Aschendorff, 1951-1999); t. 16: Metaphysica.

Alex. = Alexandri Aphrodisiensis in Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria, ed. M. Hayduck, Vol. 1 of Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (Berlin, 1891).

Translation: Alexander of Aphrodisias On Aristotle’s Metaphysics 1, transl. W. E. Dooley (Ithaca, 1989) (with Greek page and line numbers in the margin).

Alex. Quaestiones = Supplementum Aristotelicum, vol. 2, pt. 2, ed. I. Bruns (Berlin, 1892).

Translation: Alexander of Aphrodisias Quaestiones, 2 vols., transl. R. W. Sharples (Ithaca, 1992-94) (with Greek page and line numbers in the margin).

Anawati; see Avicenna.

Aquinas, St. Thomas, In Duodecim Libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis Exposito, ed. M. R. Cathala (rev. by R. M. Spiazzi) (Turin, 1950) (cited by page and section number).

Translation: St. Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle, 2 vols., transl. J. P. Rowan (Chicago, 1961) (with Latin section numbers preserved).

Aristotle, ΤΩΝ ΜΕΤΑ ΤΑ ΦΥΣΙΚΑ (Metaphysics). Editions: ed. D. Ross, 2 vols. with commentary (Oxford, 3^rd ed. 1953); ed. W. Jaeger (Oxford, 1957); ed. G. Reale, 3 vols. with Italian transl. and commentary (Milan, 1993).

(Translations are too numerous to mention.)

Arnaldez, R., Averroes: A Rationalist in Islam, transl. D. Streight (Notre Dame, Ind., 2000).

Ascl. Asclepii in Metaphysica Commentaria, ed. M. Hayduck, Vol. 6 Part 2 of Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (Berlin, 1888).

Av. Averroës

General Latin translation: Aristotelis Opera cum Averrois Commentariis, 9 vols. and 3 suppls. (Venice, 1562-74 ; repr. Frankfurt a.M., 1962) (with comment numbers in the margin)

-----, Tafsīr mā Ba‘d aṭ-Ṭabī‘a (الطبيعة), 3 vols. plus editor’s Notice, ed. M. Bouyges (Beirut, 1938-55).

Translations: Aristotelis Opera cum Averrois Commentariis (see above), Vol. 8; Averroès Grand Commentaire de la Métaphysique d’Aristote, Livre Lam-Lambda, transl. A. Martin (Paris, 1984) (with Arabic page and line numbers in the margin); Ibn Rushd’s Metaphysics: A Translation of Ibn Rushd’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book Lām, transl. C. Genequand (Leiden, 1984) (with Arabic page numbers in the margin); Averroès Grand Commentaire (Tafsīr) de la Métaphysique, Livre Bêta, transl. L. Bauloye (Paris, 2002) (with Arabic page and line numbers in the margin).

----- , Talḫīs (تلخيس) mā ba‘d aṭ-Ṭabī‘a (البيعة), ed. `Uthmān Amīn (Cairo, 1958) (referred to by Section number).

Translation: Die Epitome der Metaphysik des Averroes, transl. S. Van den Bergh (Leiden, 1970).

----- , Averrois Cordubensis Commentarium Medium in Aristotelis de Generatione et Corruptione Libros, ed. F. H. Fobes (Cambridge, Mass., 1956).

----- , Averrois Cordubensis Commentarium Magnum in Aristotelis de Anima Libros, ed. F. S. Crawford (Cambridge, Mass., 1953).

-----, Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s De anima, ed. A. L. Ivry (Provo, 2002).

-----, De Substantia Orbis, Hebrew text edited and translated into English by A. Hyman (Cambridge, Mass., 1986) (cited according to the English translation).

Avi. Avicenna

-----, Ash-Shifā’. al-Ilāhīyāt (Cairo, 1960) (cited by book, section, and paragraph numbers).

Translations: La Métaphysique du Shifā’, 2 vols., transl. G. C. Anawati (Paris, 1978-85); Metaphysica: la scienza dell cose divine, transl. O. Lizzini (Milan, 2002) (with the medieval Latin translation as an apparatus); The Metaphysics of The Healing, transl. Michael E. Marmura (Provo, 2005).

-----, Ash-Shifâ’. Al-Kawn wa-l-Fasâd (Cairo, 1969).

Translation: Avicenna Latinus, Liber Tertia Naturalium. De Generatione et Corruptione, ed. S. van Riet (Louvain-la-Neuve/Leiden, 1987) (with Arabic pagination in the margins).

B. M. Bouyges, editor of the Tafsīr; see Averroës.

al-Baġdādī, ‘Abd al-Laṭīf, Kitāb fī ‘ilm mā ba‘d aṭ-ṭabī‘a, excerpted in A. Neuwirth, “Neue Materialien zur arabischen Tradition der beiden ersten Metaphysik-Bücher, Die Welt des Islams 18 (n.s.) (1977), 84-100, at 96-100.

Translation: see Martini (1999) 94-96.

Barnes, J., The Presocratic Philosophers: The Arguments of the Philosophers, revised ed. (London/New York, 1999).

Bauloye, L., (1997), La Question de l’essence. Averroès et Thomas d’Aquin, Commentateurs d’Aristotle, Métaphysique Z1 (Louvain-la-Neuve).

----- (2002); see Averroës.

Burkert, Walter, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism, transl. E. L. Minar, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1972).

C-W Caspari-Wright = C. P. Caspari, A Grammar of the Arabic Language, transl. W. Wright, revised by W. R. Smith and M. J. de Goeje, 3^rd ed., 2 vols. in 1 (Cambridge 1967).

D-K Diels-Kranz = Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 3 vols., ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz, 6^th ed. (Berlin, 1951).

Dooley; see Alexander.

Fakhry, Majid, A History of Islamic Philosophy, 2^nd ed. (New York/London, 1983).

al-Fārābī, The Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, transl. M. Mahdi (Ithaca, 2001)

Genequand; see Averroës.

Gutas, D., Greek Thought, Arabic Culture. The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early ‘Abbāsid Society (2^nd-4^th /8^th-10^th centuries) (London/New York, 1998).

Guthrie, W. K. C., A History of Greek Philosophy, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1962-81).

Harvey, S., “Conspicuous by his Absence: Averroes’s Place Today as an Interpreter of Aristotle,” in Averroes and the Aristotelian Tradition, ed. G. Endress and J. A. Aertsen (Leiden/Boston/Cologne, 1999), 32-49.

Ivry, A., “Averroes,” in Medieval Philosophy, ed. J. Barenbom (Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. III) (London/New York, 1998), 49-64.

-----, “Averroës on Aristotle,” in Uses and Abuses of the Classics. Western Interpretations of Greek Philosophy, ed. J. J. E. Gracia and J. Yu (Aldershot and Burlington, 2004), 125-35.

J. W. Jaeger; see Aristotle.

Lat. 1562 Venice Latin translation of A.’s works with Av.’s commentaries; see Av.  (Where no volume number is stated it is understood to be Vol. VIII, the Metaphysics with the Tafsīr, translated by Michael Scot early in the 13^th century.)

Lizzini; see Avicenna.

LSJ Greek-English Lexicon, 9^th ed., ed. H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, rev. H. S. Jones (Oxford, 1940 with several reprints; Supplement 1996).

Marmura; see Avicenna.

Martin; see Averroës.

Martini, C., “The Arabic Version of the Book Alpha Meizon of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the Testimony of the Ms. Bibl. Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. Lat. 2048,” in Les Traducteurs au travail: leurs manuscrits et leurs méthodes, ed. J. Hamesse (Turnhout, 2001), 173-206.

------ “La tradizioni araba della Metafisica di Aristotele Libri α-A,” in Aristotele e Alessandro di Afrodisia nella Tradizione araba, eds. C. D’Ancona and G. Serra (Padua, 2002), 75-112..

N. Naẓīf (نظيف), the Arabic translator of A.’s Metaph. A; see Averroës.

R. D. Ross; see Aristotle.

Reale; see Aristotle.

Rowan; see Aquinas.

Siger of Brabant, Quaestiones in Metaphysicam, W. Dunphy, ed. (Munich and Vienna manuscripts) (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1981).

Simplicius, Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum Libros Quattuor Priores, H. Diels, ed., Vol. 9 of Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (Berlin, 1882).

Translation: Simplicius on Aristotle’s “Physics 3,” transl. J. O. Urmson, (Ithaca, 2002).

Sorabji, R., ed., Aristotle Transformed. The Ancient Commentators and their Influence (Ithaca, 1990).

Tafsīr Tafsīr mā ba‘d ṭ-Ṭabī‘a (الطبيعة); see Averroës.

Walzer, R., “On the Arabic Versions of Books A, α, and Λ of Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” in his Greek into Arabic: Essays in Islamic Philosophy (Columbia, S.C., 1970), 114-28 (article originally published 1958).

Weldon, W. A., ed., Plato’s Forms: Varieties of Interpretation (Lanham, 2002).