Avicenna (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

Dimitri Gutas's Avicenna entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed reference article by one of the foremost living specialists in classical Islamic and Arabic philosophy, published in a philosophy encyclopedia whose entries are commissioned from recognized experts and subject to academic editorial oversight, distinguishing it from a crowd-edited general encyclopedia. Its authority rests on Gutas's own extensive scholarly work on Avicenna and the broader Arabic Aristotelian tradition. As a reference encyclopedia entry rather than a monograph, it synthesizes and orients readers to the existing specialist literature and to Avicenna's own philosophical corpus rather than advancing extended new argument of its own, with its citation apparatus pointing toward that deeper literature for readers wanting more.