Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy : Avicenna and Beyond (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Preliminary observations: self-cognition and Avicennian psychology; 2. Avicenna and the phenomenon of self-awareness: the experiential basis of the flying man; 3. Self-awareness as existence: Avicenna on the individuality of an incorporeal substance; 4. In the first person: Avicenna's concept of self-awareness reconstructed; 5. Self-awareness without substance: from Ab? al-Barak?t al-Baghd?d? to Suhraward?; 6. Self-awareness, presence, appearance: the ishr?q? context; 7. Mull? Sadr? on self-awareness; 8. The self reconsidered: Sadrian revisions to the Avicennian concept; Conclusion: who is the I?; Appendix: Arabic terminology related to self-awareness; Bibliography; Index.