N V Efremova
Biographic Data
| ID | 9928389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N V Efremova |
| GIVEN NAMES | N V |
| FAMILY NAME | Efremova |
| SIGNATURE | EFREMOVA N V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1216-5067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Concept of ittisal in Ibn Sina’s Noetics
The article examines the approach of the foremost philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; c. 980–1037), to a fundamental epistemological question raised by Aristotle in his treatise “On the Soul” (431b17–19), which did not receive further development in his works: the possibility for the mind, residing in the human body, to conceive the immaterial intelligibiles. The paper explores the Avicenna’s critique of the concept of the union (…
Ibn Bajja. Conjunction of [Active] intellect with man
This publication presents a translation of the work of the first major representative of the “Western” branch of Muslim philosophy ( falsafa ), the Arab-Spanish philosopher Abu Bakr ibn Bajja (lat. Avempace; d. 1139). This treatise, dating back to the last years of the philosopher’s life, was written as a message to his friend and follower, the vizier Ibn al-Imam (d. c. 1152). Substantiating the doctrine of the highest happiness in this life and …
On Ibn Bajja’s Philosophical Psychology
This article is intended to serve as a kind of introduction to the treatise of the pioneer of the Peripatetic school in Arab Spain — Ibn Bajja (lat. Avempace, d. 1139) — “The Conjunction of the Active Intellect with Man”, the translation of which is published in this issue. The article covers the life and work of the philosopher, highlighting the main concepts of his philosophical psychology: the doctrine of spiritual forms; the proofs for existe…
On Intellectual Intention of Falsafa’s Felicitology
This publication is intended to be a kind of introduction to the author’s planned translation of a fragment about the comprehension of the separated by the unseparated from the treatise “Long Commentary on Aristotle’s “De anima” written by Ibn Rushd (lat. Averroes; d. 1198). In Falsafa (Muslim peripateticism), the problem of cognition of immaterial substances (especially God and cosmic intellects) by the material, human intellect is of fundamenta…
About Avicennа’s modification of Aristotelian hylemorphism
The article continues our study of the reception of aristotelian psychology in the philosophy of the greatest thinker of classical Islam — Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980– 1037), which has been begun in this journal (2021, No. 4). Endowing aristotelism with an immortological dimension, the Muslim philosopher transforms hylemorphism into entelechism, justiβies the substantiality of the soul, its incorporeality and incorruptibility. In avicennian reconstru…
The Falsafa Prophetology in Modernist Discourse
The article shows how the concept of «natural prophecy», which developed within the framework of Falsafa (the Hellenizing philosophy of classical Islam) and traditionally qualifi ed as heterodox, was revived in the works of Muslim modernists of the 19th-20th centuries (especially Jamalad-din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abdo and their followers), who focused on the reconstruction of theological discourse in the spirit of openness to religious and confess…
Falsafa’s foundations of the modernistic theology of dialogue
Philosophical theology, which developed within the framework of the Falsafa school, is a vivid example of a constructive dialogue between classical Islam and other religions and cultures. The universalist ideas put forward by al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and other thinkers of this school inspired the reformers of the 19 th –20 th centuries (especially Jamaladdin al-Afghani, Muhammad Abdo and their followers) to develop the…
Avicennian reсeption of Aristotle’s philosophical psychology
In the encyclopedic treatise, the ash-Shifā ’ (“The Healing”), the most prominent philosopher of classical Islam Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980–1037) has substantially revised the Aristotelian teaching about the soul. In the first instance, this revision is evident in terms of orientation to a strictly apodictic epistemology and to a synthesis of the Aristotelian teaching with Islamic monotheism. Following this second trend, Ibn Sina supplies the psych…
Representation of Author's Scientific Model of World Through the Text
The article is dedicated to the one of the key problems in modern science - the problem of translation of scientific knowledge - and takes medical texts as an example. Due to analysis of the medical texts from the same author we can see a realization of the scientific model of the world by choice of an actual discursive space. As his/her aim is to translate his/her point of view to the readers, author can do it directly, in an accessible and easy…
On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle's Categories (ch. V-VII)
The article is the second part of a study regarding the problem of the re-edition of Aristotle's Categories in the work “The Healing” ( ash-Shifā’ ) by the greatest philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037). It is based on the immanent study of the source. The study highlights Avicenna's revision of Aristotelian doctrine of the first three categories - the substance , the quantity and the relation. The authors highlight the int…
On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle’s Categories
The article is the first part of a study regarding the problem of the re-edition of Aristotle’s Categories in the work “The Healing” ( ash-Shifā’ ) by the greatest philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037). It shows the ways and approaches by Avicenna to revisit the epistemological status of the Categories , as well as his approach to “ontologize” and “delogicisize” the problems of categories. Also, the authors provide an analy…
On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle’s Categories (ch. VIII–XV)
The article is the third part of a study regarding the problem of the re-edition of Aristotle’s Categories in the work “The Healing” ( ash-Shifā’ ) by the greatest philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037). It is based on the immanent study of the source. The study highlights Avicenna’s revision of Aristotelian doctrine of the last of the four main categories – quality, as well as the other six categories, and also the concepts…
On Avicennian Reform of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
This is the second part of the article (the first part see in Orientalistica [1]. It comprises the analysis of the approach made by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980–1037) to the «Metaphysics» by Aristotle. This approach was aimed to reconsider the work by Aristotle from the point of view of monotheism and shape the metaphysics as rigorous scientific discipline. The author focuses on the analysis of the introductory chapters to the «Theology / Metaphysics»…
Ibn Rushd. The Great Commentary on Aristotle’s “De Anima” (Book III, comm. 17–19)
This work presents a translation of a fragment from the work of the prominent Arab- Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Lat.: Averroes, d. 1198) — of commentaries on the fifth chapter of the third book of the Ari stotelian treatise “On the Soul”. The doctrine of intellect set forth in this treatise, which is lapidary and allows for ambivalent interpretations, was developed in many directions in Muslim philosophy ( falsafa ), gaining new dimensions — on…
Ibn Rushd. The Great Commentary on Aristotle’s ‘De Anima’ (Book III, Comment. 20)
The second part of the publication, which has been started in the previous issue of the journal, presents the translation of the fi nal fragment of the commentary of the prominent Arab- Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 1198) made by him to the fi fth chapter of the third book of the Aristotelian treatise “On the Soul”. The incorruptibility in this chapter, which traditionally is attributed exclusively to the active intellect, was interp…
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On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle's Categories (ch. V-VII)
The article is the second part of a study regarding the problem of the re-edition of Aristotle's Categories in the work “The Healing” ( ash-Shifā’ ) by the greatest philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037). It is based on the immanent study of the source. The study highlights Avicenna's revision of Aristotelian doctrine of the first three categories - the substance , the quantity and the relation. The authors highlight the int…
On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle’s Categories
The article is the first part of a study regarding the problem of the re-edition of Aristotle’s Categories in the work “The Healing” ( ash-Shifā’ ) by the greatest philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037). It shows the ways and approaches by Avicenna to revisit the epistemological status of the Categories , as well as his approach to “ontologize” and “delogicisize” the problems of categories. Also, the authors provide an analy…
On Avicennian Reception of Aristotle’s Categories (ch. VIII–XV)
The article is the third part of a study regarding the problem of the re-edition of Aristotle’s Categories in the work “The Healing” ( ash-Shifā’ ) by the greatest philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037). It is based on the immanent study of the source. The study highlights Avicenna’s revision of Aristotelian doctrine of the last of the four main categories – quality, as well as the other six categories, and also the concepts…
On Avicennian Reform of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
This is the second part of the article (the first part see in Orientalistica [1]. It comprises the analysis of the approach made by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980–1037) to the «Metaphysics» by Aristotle. This approach was aimed to reconsider the work by Aristotle from the point of view of monotheism and shape the metaphysics as rigorous scientific discipline. The author focuses on the analysis of the introductory chapters to the «Theology / Metaphysics»…
Ibn Rushd. The Great Commentary on Aristotle’s “De Anima” (Book III, comm. 17–19)
This work presents a translation of a fragment from the work of the prominent Arab- Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Lat.: Averroes, d. 1198) — of commentaries on the fifth chapter of the third book of the Ari stotelian treatise “On the Soul”. The doctrine of intellect set forth in this treatise, which is lapidary and allows for ambivalent interpretations, was developed in many directions in Muslim philosophy ( falsafa ), gaining new dimensions — on…
Ibn Rushd. The Great Commentary on Aristotle’s ‘De Anima’ (Book III, Comment. 20)
The second part of the publication, which has been started in the previous issue of the journal, presents the translation of the fi nal fragment of the commentary of the prominent Arab- Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 1198) made by him to the fi fth chapter of the third book of the Aristotelian treatise “On the Soul”. The incorruptibility in this chapter, which traditionally is attributed exclusively to the active intellect, was interp…
Avicennian reсeption of Aristotle’s philosophical psychology
In the encyclopedic treatise, the ash-Shifā ’ (“The Healing”), the most prominent philosopher of classical Islam Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980–1037) has substantially revised the Aristotelian teaching about the soul. In the first instance, this revision is evident in terms of orientation to a strictly apodictic epistemology and to a synthesis of the Aristotelian teaching with Islamic monotheism. Following this second trend, Ibn Sina supplies the psych…
Representation of Author's Scientific Model of World Through the Text
The article is dedicated to the one of the key problems in modern science - the problem of translation of scientific knowledge - and takes medical texts as an example. Due to analysis of the medical texts from the same author we can see a realization of the scientific model of the world by choice of an actual discursive space. As his/her aim is to translate his/her point of view to the readers, author can do it directly, in an accessible and easy…
Falsafa’s foundations of the modernistic theology of dialogue
Philosophical theology, which developed within the framework of the Falsafa school, is a vivid example of a constructive dialogue between classical Islam and other religions and cultures. The universalist ideas put forward by al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and other thinkers of this school inspired the reformers of the 19 th –20 th centuries (especially Jamaladdin al-Afghani, Muhammad Abdo and their followers) to develop the…
The Falsafa Prophetology in Modernist Discourse
The article shows how the concept of «natural prophecy», which developed within the framework of Falsafa (the Hellenizing philosophy of classical Islam) and traditionally qualifi ed as heterodox, was revived in the works of Muslim modernists of the 19th-20th centuries (especially Jamalad-din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abdo and their followers), who focused on the reconstruction of theological discourse in the spirit of openness to religious and confess…
About Avicennа’s modification of Aristotelian hylemorphism
The article continues our study of the reception of aristotelian psychology in the philosophy of the greatest thinker of classical Islam — Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980– 1037), which has been begun in this journal (2021, No. 4). Endowing aristotelism with an immortological dimension, the Muslim philosopher transforms hylemorphism into entelechism, justiβies the substantiality of the soul, its incorporeality and incorruptibility. In avicennian reconstru…
Ibn Bajja. Conjunction of [Active] intellect with man
This publication presents a translation of the work of the first major representative of the “Western” branch of Muslim philosophy ( falsafa ), the Arab-Spanish philosopher Abu Bakr ibn Bajja (lat. Avempace; d. 1139). This treatise, dating back to the last years of the philosopher’s life, was written as a message to his friend and follower, the vizier Ibn al-Imam (d. c. 1152). Substantiating the doctrine of the highest happiness in this life and …
On Ibn Bajja’s Philosophical Psychology
This article is intended to serve as a kind of introduction to the treatise of the pioneer of the Peripatetic school in Arab Spain — Ibn Bajja (lat. Avempace, d. 1139) — “The Conjunction of the Active Intellect with Man”, the translation of which is published in this issue. The article covers the life and work of the philosopher, highlighting the main concepts of his philosophical psychology: the doctrine of spiritual forms; the proofs for existe…
On Intellectual Intention of Falsafa’s Felicitology
This publication is intended to be a kind of introduction to the author’s planned translation of a fragment about the comprehension of the separated by the unseparated from the treatise “Long Commentary on Aristotle’s “De anima” written by Ibn Rushd (lat. Averroes; d. 1198). In Falsafa (Muslim peripateticism), the problem of cognition of immaterial substances (especially God and cosmic intellects) by the material, human intellect is of fundamenta…
On the Concept of ittisal in Ibn Sina’s Noetics
The article examines the approach of the foremost philosopher of classical Islam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna; c. 980–1037), to a fundamental epistemological question raised by Aristotle in his treatise “On the Soul” (431b17–19), which did not receive further development in his works: the possibility for the mind, residing in the human body, to conceive the immaterial intelligibiles. The paper explores the Avicenna’s critique of the concept of the union (…
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