Alfarabi

The Political Writings (eBook, ePUB)

"Political Regime" and "Summary of Plato's Laws"
Übersetzer: Butterworth, Charles E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780801456312
• Artikelnr.: 48786601

Autorenporträt

Charles E. Butterworth is Emeritus professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.