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God emanates the universe from himself in a series of triads formed of mind, soul, and body. This process terminates in the Aristotelian “active intellect,” which governs directly all earthly regions and transmits to all things their appropriate forms. Man’s soul is also derived from it and is immortal. Avicenna was not an absolute pantheist as he believed matter to exist independently of God. He fixed the classification of sciences used in the medieval schools of Europe.Reading
Book of Healing
The Canon of Medicine
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Commentaries
S. M. Afnan, Avicenna, His Life and Works (1958)
H. Corbin, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital (tr. 1960)
P. Morewedge, The Metaphysics of Avicenna (1973)
Biography of Avicenna (http://www.ummah.net/history/scholars/ibn_sina/)Catholic
Encyclopedia: Avicenna (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02157a.htm)