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The Book of the Decisive Treatise Determining the Connection Between the Law and Wisdom; and, The Epistle Dedicatory
Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) emerged from an eminent family in Muslim Spain to become the first and last great Aristotelian of the classical Islamic world his meticulous commentaries influenced Christian thinkers and earned him favorable mention…
The Metaphysics of The Healing: a parallel English-Arabic text = al-Ilahīyāt min al-Shifāʼ
"Avicenna (Ibn Sina, 980-1037) was the most systematic, thorough, and influential of the Islamic philosophers. His Metaphysics (Al-Ilahiyyat) is the climactic, concluding part of his magnum opus, The Healing (Al-Shifa). As in his physics and…
The heirs of Muhammad: Islam's first century and the origins of the Sunni-Shia split
[In this book, the author] recounts the lives of the handful of individuals - the first four Caliphs, the Prophet's widows and the conquering generals - who led and influenced Islam after the death of Muhammad. Within this fifty-year span of conquest…