Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (Author)
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023) was a prominent
litterateur and philosopher in Baghdad.
Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh (Author)
Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh (ca. 320-421/932-1030) was a philosopher
and historian born in Rayy.
Jonathan Rée (Foreword by)
Jonathan Rée is a freelance philosopher and historian living
in Oxford and London. His books include Proletarian Philosophers,
Philosophical Tales, I See a Voice, Witcraft, and A Schoolmaster's
War.
Sophia Vasalou (Translator)
Sophia Vasalou is Senior Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow in
Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. Her books
include Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of
Mu'tazilite Ethics, Wonder: A Grammar, and Ibn Taymiyya’s
Theological Ethics.
James E. Montgomery (Translator)
James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of
Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall.
His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting
Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and
Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024
he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
"Tawhidi’s questions are often epigrammatic essays; they assert the
limits of human reason and dwell on man’s 'deficiencies,' while
evincing a Johnsonian keenness towards observing the contradictions
of the human character, the fortunes of life and the spirit of the
age. . . . There was no better recorder of his distempered century
than Tawhidi; but there was also no other thinker of his time whose
disillusioned and restless spirit is more modern, or whose
character comes across more strongly in his writings."
*Times Literary Supplement*
"A fascinating read, particularly for the aspiring scholar of
classical Arabic texts, who will benefit from a solid English
translation alongside the original Arabic."
*Al Jadid*
"...Through an elegant and fluent English translation, makes this
unique work accessible to an audience of non-specialists."
*Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies*
"A marvel of literary finesse, of an English style seemingly able
to match the often ornate prose of the Arabic... A pleasure to read
throughout."
*Journal of Near Eastern Studies*
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