Here's a translation I did of Avicenna's Metaphysics (Al-Shifa) book 9, chapter 4. That's the place Avicenna describes the emanation of the universe from God. It's a facing page translation, with the critical Latin text.
Avicenna, Meta. 9.4
Discrete time and Aristotle's argument for an infinite past
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Aristotle had a famous argument that time had no beginning or end. In the
case of beginnings, this argument caused immense philosophical suffering in
the...
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