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This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle’s <i>Metaphysic</i>s in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 C.E.), one of the major exponents of Arabic philosophy: the <i>Ilāhiyyāt </i>(Science of Divine Things) of the <i>Kitāb al-Šifā’</i> (<i>Book of the Cure</i>), known in the Latin Middle Ages as <i>Liber de Philosophia Prima sive Scientia Divina</i>.<br> The first part of the book (on the Arabic translations of the <i>Metaphysics</i>, al-Kindī and al-Fārābī) introduces the discussion of Avicenna’s reshaping of the epistemological profile of the <i>Metaphysics</i> in Part II (his account of the subject-matter, structure, method and role of metaphysics in the system of sciences) and the recasting of its contents in Part III.<br> The present volume provides the first systematic comparison of the <i>Ilāhiyyāt</i> with the <i>Metaphysics</i> and a comprehensive account of this latter’s transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.