See Zimmermann (1986), 113.

See Zimmermann (1986), 113. [^9]: M.-Th. D'Alverny, "Anniyya-Anitas," inMélanges offerts a Étienne Gilson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute, 1959), 65. See also R. M. Frank, "The Origin of the Arabic Philosophical TermAnniyya ,"Cahiers de Byrsa 6 (1956): 181-201, which argues for a Syriac derivation. [^10]: G. Endress,Proclus Arabus: Zwanzig Abschnitte aus der Institutio Theologica in arabischer Übersetzung (Beirut and Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, 1973), 80. [^11]:Theology of Aristotle , VIII.125.

[^12]: The translation is referred to above in n. 6. Thathuwiyya andanniyya are in fact synonyms in this work can be verified by comparing, for example,Letter on Divine Science (100), where the paraphrase refers to God ashuwiyya faqat , with our text (C) below, where God is calledanniyya faqat . Similarly, we find intellect referred to as bothhuwiyya andanniyya (e.g.,Theology X.3 and VIII.122-4, 135, respectively). [^13]:Sayings of the Greek Sage IX.3 andTheology of Aristotle VII.19.

See below for further discussion of this usage. [^14]: Foranniyya andhuwiyya as "being" in the abstract sense, see, e.g., al-Kindi, FP 117.4 [RJ 31.22] and 113.2 [RJ 27.9], respectively. Foranniyyat , "beings," see FP 97.14 [RJ 9.13]. Jolivet, incidentally, translates both terms with the French "existence." For further comment on the termanniyya , see G. Endress and D. Gutas,A Greek-Arabic Lexicon (Leiden: Brill, 1997), Fasc.

4, 428-[^36]: [^15]: For references to the range of usage in al-Kindi, see the comments onays in Endress (1973), 104-5. [^16]: See further Endress (1973), 104-5. Again, Jolivet translatesaysiyya as "existence," and usually rendersays as "un existant." In the short physical treatiseR.

fi'l-Jirm al -Hamil bi-Tiba'ihi al-Lawn min al-'anasir al-Arba'a wa alladhihuwa 'Illa al-Lawn fiGhayrihi (On the Body that is by Nature the Bearer for the Color of the Four Elements, and which is the Cause of the Color in Things Other than Itself ), Abu Rida, vol. II, 64-8, al-Kindi equatesays with "the existent" (al-mawjuda ), 66.3. [^17]: Cf. Proclus,Elements of Theology , Proposition 70. [^18]: See especially R.

Taylor, "Aquinas, thePlotiniana Arabica and the Metaphysics of Being and Actuality,"Journal of the History of Ideas 59 (1998): 241-64. [^19]: SeeEnneads V.4.2, V.6.6; Plato,Republic 509b. [^20]:Theology of Aristotle III.47 [B 51.13].