Avicenna s "Physics" is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, "The""Healing." Avicenna s reasons for beginning with "Physics" are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understand such special natural sciences as psychology; it sets up many of the problems that take center stage in his "Metaphysics"; and it provides concrete examples of many of the abstract analytical tools that he would develop later in "Logic."
While Avicenna s "Physics "roughly follows the thought of Aristotle s "Physics," with its emphasis...

Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad enjoined his followers to seek knowledge, even unto China. Within the religion, educational theory and practice were founded on the work of itinerant teachers who taught the fundamental tenets of the faith in exchange for lodging and other services; Qur anic schools where masters of the Qur an tutored pupils; and centers of higher learning in Baghdad, Damascus, Alexandria and elsewhere, where Islamic theology and jurisprudence were developed and taught. In this volume, Bradley J. Cook, with assistance from Fathi...