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Language: en
Pages: 182
Pages: 182
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
Joshua Parens provides an introduction to the thought of Alfarabi, a tenth-century Muslim political philosopher whose writings are particularly relevant today.
Language: en
Pages: 191
Pages: 191
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
This intriguing work offers a new perspective on Islamic Peripatetic philosophy, critiquing modern receptions of such thought and highlighting the contribution
Language: en
Pages: 284
Pages: 284
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-21 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In this work, Muhsin Mahdi—widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Islamic political thought—distills more than four decades of research to offer an au
Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press
Parens argues that Alfarabi, the tenth-century Muslim philosopher, demonstrated that Plato is not the originator of Western metaphysics, and that what appears t
Language: en
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-08 - Publisher: Springer
This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things. The author moves beyond the dominant model