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The Political Writings: Political Regime and Summary of Plato´s Laws
Alfarabi
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Description for The Political Writings: Political Regime and Summary of Plato´s Laws
Hardback. Translator(s): Butterworth, Charles E. Series: Agora Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPDC; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 436.
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 Political Regime and Summary of Plato's Laws, accompanied by introductions that discuss the background for each work and explore its teaching. In addition, the texts are carefully annotated to aid the reader in following Alfarabi's argument. An Arabic-English/English-Arabic glossary allows interested readers to verify the way particular words are translated. Throughout, Butterworth's method is to translate consistently the same Arabic word by the same English word, rendering Alfarabi's style in an unusually faithful and yet approachable manner.
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Agora Editions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801453809
SKU
V9780801453809
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About Alfarabi
Charles E. Butterworth is Emeritus professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. The author of many books, Charles E. Butterworth is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.
Reviews for The Political Writings: Political Regime and Summary of Plato´s Laws
The translation on the whole is clear and very readable.... Readers with neither knowledge of Arabic nor familiarity with al-Farabi's writings will find the text easy to understand and follow, and the book will be useful for students.
Journal of Islamic Studies
Butterworth's splendid introduction to the first of these two texts provides the best introduction to Alfarabi's metaphysics that one is likely to find. In briefly sketching the life of Alfarabi, he also draws attention to the often forgotten major centers of learning in the ancient world.
The Review of Metaphysics
Butterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi's important political writings.
Choice
Butterworth here offers... a commendable, skilled rendition of the Summary of Plato's Laws.
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Butterworth brilliantly combines in one volume the theoretical agenda of the Political Regime and the practical concerns of the Summary. This volume is an excellent contribution to Alfarabi scholarship and should be most welcome to anyone interested in Islamic philosophy.
The Review of Politics
Accurate and very readable.... [Butterworth] was a student of Muhsin Mahdi, the leading scholar of Alfarabi of our time (and perhaps of all time), whose many editions, translations, and studies of Alfarabi's writings have enriched our understanding of this most influential philosopher. Butterworth is Mahdi's intellectual heir.... We are much indebted to Butterworth, who has undertaken this mission with admirable responsibility.
Speculum
Journal of Islamic Studies
Butterworth's splendid introduction to the first of these two texts provides the best introduction to Alfarabi's metaphysics that one is likely to find. In briefly sketching the life of Alfarabi, he also draws attention to the often forgotten major centers of learning in the ancient world.
The Review of Metaphysics
Butterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi's important political writings.
Choice
Butterworth here offers... a commendable, skilled rendition of the Summary of Plato's Laws.
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Butterworth brilliantly combines in one volume the theoretical agenda of the Political Regime and the practical concerns of the Summary. This volume is an excellent contribution to Alfarabi scholarship and should be most welcome to anyone interested in Islamic philosophy.
The Review of Politics
Accurate and very readable.... [Butterworth] was a student of Muhsin Mahdi, the leading scholar of Alfarabi of our time (and perhaps of all time), whose many editions, translations, and studies of Alfarabi's writings have enriched our understanding of this most influential philosopher. Butterworth is Mahdi's intellectual heir.... We are much indebted to Butterworth, who has undertaken this mission with admirable responsibility.
Speculum