Avicenna's Emanated Abstraction

One of the largest ongoing debates in contemporary scholarship on Avicenna (Ibn Sina, the 10th-11th-century Persian philosopher) concerns his epistemology of the acquisition of intelligible forms (or concepts) between the more traditional "emanationists" and the more recent "abstractionists". It is encouraging to see a topic in Avicenna (and Islamic philosophy more broadly) receive the kind of detailed scholarly attention regularly afforded to many other figures in the history of philosophy. And for good reason. This is a paramount issue in Avicenna's philosophy (which went on to influence both the Islamic and Western traditions in unrivaled fashion), and the two accounts need to be reconciled in a much more satisfactory way.