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2 unusual facts about Sicilian Questions


Sicilian Questions

As usual in medieval Arabic treatises, and how could it be otherwise, if we take into account the rich and highly educated of Ibn Sabin, in the Sicilian Questions the author quotes from other writers, especially those in the classical antiquity, among them are, for example, Plato's Phaedrus and especially those belonging to the logic of Aristotle, as the most relevant.

Other important philosophers and thinkers in the Sicilian Questions referred to are, in alphabetical order, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Anaxagoras, Berosus, Crates, Diogenes, Euclid, Al-Farabi, Galen, Al-Ghazali, Al-Hallaj, Ibn Bajja (Avempace) Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Iamblichus, Mellow, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Themistius, Theophrastus, and Zeno of Elea.



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