Alfarabi, The Political Writings: 'Selected Aphorisms' and Other Texts.

The Journal of the American Oriental Society › Vol. 123 Nbr. 1, January 2003

Author: Parens, Joshua S.

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Alfarabi, The Political Writings: 'Selected Aphorisms' and Other Texts.

By CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. xiii + 179. $35.

At last, a wider English-speaking audience will gain access to the riches contained in Alfarabi's political philosophy. Not that our appetite has not already be...

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