Abstract
AbstractIbn al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī'sKitāb Bahjat al-muʾmin, theBook of the Delight of the Believerpreserves, in the first part, in at least three of its 100 philosophical and theological problems, passages from the hitherto lost Arabic version of Philoponus'De Aeternitate mundi contra Proclum. All quotations are taken from the refutation of the first proof, one of them from the beginning which is also lost in Greek. For this latter passage a parallel is found in al-Isfizārī who draws on the same Philoponus source in hisKitāb fī Masāʾil al-umūr al-ilāhiyya(Book on Metaphysical Questions). A comparison of the other passages to the extant Greek text suggests that al-Anṭākī quotes Philoponus faithfully, but with some omissions and occasional re-arrangement of his source. Additional evidence for al-Anṭākī's overall accurate use of sources can be gained from his quotations of the extant Arabic versions of theDe Anima-paraphrase, Nemesius'De Natura hominisand ʿAlī b. Rabban al-Ṭabarī'sFirdaws al-ḥikma(Paradise of Wisdom).
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