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- Title: Ibn Sina--Al-Biruni Correspondence-Viii.
- Author : Islam & Science
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 164 KB
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This provisional translation of the correspondence between Ibn Sina and al-Biruni (al-As'ilah wa'l-ajwibah) contains the complete text of the response of Abu Said al-Ma'sumi to the objections of al-Biruni regarding the set of eight questions posed by him to Ibn Sina. Al-Biruni had not been satisfied with Ibn Sina's initial response and had replied in short, categorical statements showing his dissatisfaction. In this eighth and final installment, Ibn Sina's student and friend, al-Ma'sumi, responds to these objections in turn in terse language, indicating his exasperation with al-Biruni. Keywords: Ibn Sina-al-Biruni correspondence; Peripatetic natural philosophy; history of physics; criticism of Aristotelian physics; Islamic scientific tradition; natural elements; schools of thought in Islamic scientific tradition.