Alfarabi (ca. 870-950) founded the great tradition of Aristotelian/Platonic political philosophy in medieval Islamic and Arabic culture. In this second volume of political writings, Charles E. Butterworth presents translations of Alfarabi's Politica…
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 Islami…
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 Thomas L. Pangle. The three parts of the…
Ab Nasr al-F r b (ca. 871-950) puede ser considerado como el verdadero fundador del sistema filos fico rabe. Representante de la Falsafa, movimiento filos fico que floreci y madur en el mundo isl mico como continuaci n del pensamiento griego, sus Ob…
