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Chiefly papers presented in a series of conferences, held at Divinity School, University of Chicago, in March 1981, April 1982 and Oct. 1982.

"Engraved plates from the great works of architectural history illustrate a journey around the architecture of civilizations east and west, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution. Extended captions and annotations supply the reader with a…

One of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages was the Muslim philosopher and jurist Ibn Rushd (1126-1198), known in the West as Averroes. Averroes's emphasis on critical reasoning as a tool for discovering the truth and his attempt to…