Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy
With a Foreword by Charles E. Butterworth
288 pages, 6 x 9
©
2001
Cloth $48.00
ISBN: 9780226501864
Published August 2001
Not for sale in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldive Islands, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka
Paper $30.00
ISBN: 9780226501871
Pre-order now. Will publish April 2010
Muhsin S. Mahdi (1926–2007) was the James R. Jewett Professor Emeritus of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Harvard University. He published the critical Arabic editions of many of Alfarabi's works, as well as the definitive edition of the Thousand and One Nights and a pathbreaking study of Ibn Khaldun's philosophy of history.
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