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HoP 142 - Dimitri Gutas on Avicenna

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Dimitri Guttas is a professor of Arabic and Greco-Arabic at Yale University. He talks about Avasenna's life story and how it might have impacted his development as a philosopher. In the year after 950, with the fall of the central importance of the Khabif impact that there was great decentralization in cultural centers throughout the Islamic world.

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