Friday, March 02, 2007

IN THE MAIL:
Averroës, Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory (Islamic Translation Series; trans. Charles E. Butterworth; Provo: Brigham Young University, 2001)

Avicenna, The Metaphysics of The Healing (Islamic Translation Series; trans. Michael E. Marmura; Provo: Brigham Young University, 2005)

Mulla Sadra, The Elixir of the Gnostics (Islamic Translation Series; trans. William Chittick; Provo: Brigham Young University, 2003)

Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi, The Philosophy of Illumination (Islamic Translation Series; trans. John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai; Provo: Brigham Young University, 1999)
BYU has been producing these wonderful Arabic-English editions of medieval Islamic philosophers for some years. I don't know what kind of reviews they've been getting from specialists, but as an interested nonspecialist who reads Arabic, I've found them very useful and have been building up a collection of them. I got two more around this time last year, of which I've only had time to finish The Niche of Lights, alongside The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, which I'm still creeping through in my spare time. At present I'm reading Mahdi's Arabic edition of The Thousand and One Nights (along with Haddawy's translation as a crib), but I mean to get back to the Arabic philosophers in due course.

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