The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (Agora Editions)
Alfarabi, "The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (Agora Editions) "
English | ISBN: 080148913X | 2004 | 179 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 080148913X | 2004 | 179 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish philosophy. This volume presents four of Alfarabi's most important texts, making his political thought available to classicists, medievalists, and scholars of religion and Byzantine and Middle Eastern studies.
In a clear prose translation by Charles E. Butterworth, these treatises provide a valuable introduction to the teachings of Alfarabi and to the development of Islamic political philosophy. All of these texts are based on new Arabic editions. Two―The Book of Religion and Harmonization of the Two Opinions of the Two Sages, Plato the Divine and Aristotle
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