Arabic transmission

Baghdad · 9th-10th c.

Anonymous (Theology of Aristotle)

Arabic paraphrase of Enneads IV-VI transmitted under Aristotle's name in the al-Kindi circle; critically a Plotinian, Porphyrian-circle text.

Theology of Aristotle (Enneads IV-VI paraphrase) — Dieterici, 1882 not yet ingested
Die sogenannte Theologie des Aristoteles (German translation) — Dieterici, 1883 not yet ingested

Anonymous (Kalam fi mahd al-khair)

Arabic digest drawn from Proclus's Elements of Theology, the direct source of the Latin Liber de causis.

Kalam fi mahd al-khair (Arabic Liber de causis) — Bardenhewer, 1882 text
Die Schrift uber das reine Gute (German translation of the Kalam fi mahd al-khair) — Bardenhewer, 1882 not yet ingested

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā)

His giver of forms (dator formarum), a separate intelligence from which every form in matter flows, is the late form of the separate-Forms view that Aquinas answers.

Opera (Latin), incl. Liber de philosophia prima — , 1508 not yet ingested