Empedocles
Book of the Five Substances and other Arabic texts (spurious)
Traditional attribution
Book of the Five Substances and other Arabic texts (spurious)
Kitāb al-jawāhir al-khamsa
A treatise on five primordial substances, headed by a prime matter, combining Neoplatonism with Islamic doctrines. It has no connection with the historical Empedocles beyond the name and a rereading of Love and Strife.
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Authorship note
Groundless attribution. Arabic Neoplatonic texts of the ninth and tenth centuries that circulated under Empedocles' name ("Pseudo-Empedocles"), influential on the Andalusian philosophy of Ibn Masarra and on Kabbalah; Daniel De Smet studied them in Empedocles Arabus (1998).
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- De Smet, Daniel. Empedocles Arabus. Une lecture néoplatonicienne tardive. Paleis der Academiën (Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België), Bruselas, 1998.
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