The Political Writings: Political Regime and Summary of Plato's Laws

by Al-Farabi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501746790
• ISBN13: 9781501746796
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher