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Critical edition of the Arabic Nicomachean Ethics including an introduction on the influence of this major Aristotelian work on Arabic literature, as well as an annotated English translation, both by the late Douglas M. Dunlop.
€130.00$168.00
This publication deals with the practical philosophy in Barhebraeus's enclyclopaedia of Aristotelian wisdom "Butyrum sapientiae". The three Syriac books on Ethics, Politics and Economy are unique and the only specimens of its kind, surviving in the Syriac language and literature.
€124.00$161.00
This source publication of one of the earliest Arabic pharmacopoeias is framed by a philological analysis of the unique manuscript, a biographical sketch of its author, an etymological survey of terms, a glossary, and indices.
€110.00$142.00
This book reconstructs the kalām theories of matter, space, and void in the tenth and eleventh centuries A.D., using texts that have only recently become available.
€117.00$152.00
The Buyide wezir Abū I-Faḍl Ibn al-‘Amīd (died 970 A.D.) became famous as a poet and expert in epistolary literature (inšą’), but also as a scholar and scientist. His letters, published here together with translation, commentary and complete glossary, inform us on questions of meteorology, ...
€177.00$229.00
Ibn ṭāwūs (d. 664/1266) was a famous Shī‘ī scholar and bibliophile. This book portrays his intellectual world and working methods, and reconstructs, as far as possible, his extensive library, which included many works now lost. Kohlberg's monograph is an important contribution to Shī‘ī studies ...
€104.00$135.00
This work by Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā is a unique health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca. It discusses concisely and logically the diseases which may befall a pilgrim and their treatment. It shows clearly the author's indebtedness to ancient medical literature, most of all the works of Paul of Aegina.
€220.00$285.00
A survey of what Arabic scholars have written on the subjects treated in Aristotle's Meteorology. It is investigated how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. Also, two Arabic treatises are edited and translated.
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This book offers editions and translations of the Syriac and Christian Arabic versions of the originally ninth-century Legend of Sergius Baḥīrā, which portrays Islam’s political might as predestined but finite and its scripture and religion as derivative of Christianity