Rahim Acar, Talking about God and Talking About Creation. Avicenna’s and Thomas Aquinas’s Positions. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005.

Alexander of Aphrodisias, Alexander of Aphrodisias on the cosmos, Charles Genequand, tr. Leiden; Boston: Brill 2001.

Aquinas on Creation. Writings on the “Sentences” of Peter Lombard. Book 2, Distinction 1, Question 1, Steven E. Baldner and William E. Carroll, tr. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1997). See especially the introduction.

Averroes. Ibn Rushd’s Metaphysics. A Translation with Introduction of Ibn Rushd’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book Lâm by Charles Genequand. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1984.

Herbert A. Davidson, Proofs For Eternity, Creation, and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Jon McGinnis, Avicenna. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Robert Wisnovsky, Avicenna’s Metaphysics in Context. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Especially Part II, The Beginning of the Avicennian Synthesis.

Some interesting and relevant additional literature

(Items in bold are particularly relevant.)

Charles Burnett, “Arabic into Latin: The Reception of Arabic Philosophy into Western Europe.” In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor (eds.), 370–404. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Miguel Cruz Hernández, Abû-l-Walîd Munammad Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Vida, obra, pensamiento, influencia. 2nd ed. Córdoba: Publicaciones de la Obra Social y Cultural Cajasur, 1997. The first edition was published in 1986.

Cristina d’Ancona (Costa), “Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), 2009. Click here.

Herbert A. Davidson, Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Thérèse-Anne Druart, “Averroes on God’s Knowledge of Being Qua Being.” In Studies in Thomistic Theology, Paul Lockey (ed.), 327-348. Houston: Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, 1995.

Thérèse-Anne Druart, “Metaphysics” In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor (eds.), 180–200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Dimitri Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works. Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1988.

Dag Nikolaus Hasse, “Das Lehrstück von den vier Intellekten in der Scholastik: Von den arabischen Quellen bis zu Albertus Magnus.” Recherches de théologie et philosophie médiévales 66 (1999): 21–77.

Hasse (2000). Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Avicenna’s De Anima in the Latin West. The Formation of a Peripatetic Philosophy of the Soul 1160–1300. London: Warburg Institute, 2000.

Dag Nicolas Hasse, “Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), 2008. Click here.

Barry Kogan, Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.

Anton Pegis, “St. Thomas and the Origin of Creation,” Philosophy and the Modern Mind. Edward Cardinal Mooney 1960-1961 Lecture Series. Detroit: Sacred Heart Seminary, 1961. Pp. 49-65.

Richard C. Taylor, “Averroes: Religious Dialectic and Aristotelian Philosophical Thought.” In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor (eds.), 180–200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Richard C. Taylor, “Averroes’ Philosophical Conception of Separate Intellect and God.” In La pensée philosophique et scientifique d’Averroès dans son temps, J. Puig Montada and A. Hasnaoui (eds.). Paris, forthcoming. Email me for a copy if interested.

Twetten (1995). David B. Twetten, “Averroes on the Prime Mover Proved in the Physics.” Viator 26 (1995): 107–134.

Twetten (2007). David B. Twetten, “Averroes’ Prime Mover Argument.” In Averroès et les averroïsmes juif et latin. Actes du Colloque International (Paris, 16–18 juin, 2005), J. B. Brenet (ed.), 9–75. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.

Urvoy (1998). Dominique Urvoy, Averroès. Les ambitions d’un intellectuel musulman. Paris: Flammarion, 1998.

John F. Wippel, “The Parisian Condemnations of 1270 and 1277.” In A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, J. J. E. Gracia and T. Noone (eds.), 65–73. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

John F. Wippel, “Chapter VIII: Thomas Aquinas on the Possibility of Eternal Creation,” in Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1984. Pp. 191-214

John F. Wippel, “Did Thomas Aquinas Defend the Possibility of an Eternally Created World? (The De aeternitate mundi Revisited),” Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (1981), 21-37.

Robert Wisnovsky, “Avicenna and the Avicennian Tradition,” In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor (eds.), 92-136. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.