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Muhsin Mahdi
This book, first published in 1957, is the study of 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who founded a special science to consider history and culture, based on the philosophy of…
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Offers an analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy. This philosophical engagement with the writings of and about Alfarabi is suitable for those interested in…
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Husain Haddawy
Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed-a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories.
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Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed-new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories.
Muhsin S. Mahdi
Much of the scholarly research into The Thousand and One Nights has centred on the origin, composition, language and literary form. This book explores the complex literary history and development…
This volume of indexes, which also includes an extensive English introduction, completes the publication of the critical edition of The Thousand and One Nights . The first two volumes -…
Includes twenty-eight tales from the The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.
Alfarabi
This long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi’s substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and…
