"Arisṭū 'inda l-'Arab," and beyond / Christina D'Ancona -- The division of the categories according to Avicenna / Paul Thom -- What if that (is) why? Avicenna's taxonomy of scientific inquiries / Riccardo Strobino -- The Rhetoric and Poetics in the Islamic world / Uwe Vagelpohl -- Al-Fārābī and the Didascalia / Frédérique Woerther -- Aristotle's 'physical' works and the Arabic tradition / Paul Lettinck -- Defining nature : from Aristotle to Philoponus to Avicenna / Andreas Lammer -- Avicenna on self-cognition and self-awareness / Ahmed Alwishah -- Averroes on intentionality and the human experience of the natural world / Yehuda Halper -- Metaphysics in the orbit of Islam / Calvin Normore -- The Arabic reception of the Nicomachean Ethics / Josh Hayes -- The shining and the hidden : notes on politics and solitude from the "Greek prophets" to al-Fārābī / Claudia Baracchi.