A philosophy reader from the circle of Miskawayh /

This volume presents the first complete edition of Oxford, MS Marsh 539, a hitherto unpublished philosophy reader compiled anonymously in the eastern Islamic world in the eleventh century. The compilation consists of texts on metaphysics, physiology and ethics, providing excerpts from Arabic version...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Wakelnig, Elvira (Editor, Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Arabic
Language Notes:	Parallel Arabic text and English translation.
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Islamic philosophy > Early works to 1800. Islamic philosophy > Greek influences. Philosophy, Ancient > Translations into Arabic. Bodleian Library. > Manuscript. > Marsh 539.

Table of Contents:

1. Marsh 539 : a philosophy reader (PR)
2. The author: a student of Miskawayh?
3. The contents: a fusion of the Late Antique curriculum and Neoplatonism?
4. The individual passages : a detailed table of contents
5. The sources of the PR : an overview of what was read in the tenth and eleventh century in the Islamic East
6. Some parallel and similar texts to the PR : Greek legacy in Arabic
7. Marsh 539 : its physical appearance
8. The manuscript : an autograph?
9. The edition : some remarks
10. Abbreviations used in the apparatus to the Arabic text
Arabic text and English translation
Commentary
Appendices.