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The Arabic Version of Ṭūsī's Nasirean Ethics
With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes
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Naṣīr al-DÄ«n ṬūsÄ«âs (d. 672/1274) Nasirean Ethics is the single most important work on philosophical ethics in the history of Islam. Translated from the original Persian into Arabic in 713/1313, the present text was primarily intended for the Arabic-speaking majority of the people in Iraq. A fine example of medieval Persian-to-Arabic translation technique, this first edition carefully reproduces Middle Arabic elements that can be found throughout the text.
Joep Lameer, PhD (1992) in Oriental Studies, Leiden University, is a specialist in the history of medieval philosophy and logic in Arabic and Persian. Author of the award-winning Conception and Belief in á¹¢adr al-DÄ«n ShÄ«rÄzÄ« (Tehran, 2006), he is presently working on Avicenna.
âThis meticulous multi-layered scholarship will be of great service to readers of Jurjänlâs translation and can only be commended⦠Readers interested in the development of philosophical ethics in the Islamic world will be grateful to have this meticulous scholarly edition at their disposal.â - Sophia Vasalou, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 138/1 (2018)
"... Lameer deserves our praise for producing a reliable edition of an important text, with an informative and well-organized introduction and instructive annotations." - Neguin Yavari, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 112 (2017)
"... Lameer shows up as a careful reader of the manuscript [...] [A] most meritorious pioneering edition..." - Jules Janssens, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXIV, January-April (2017)
"... Lameer deserves our praise for producing a reliable edition of an important text, with an informative and well-organized introduction and instructive annotations." - Neguin Yavari, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 112 (2017)
"... Lameer shows up as a careful reader of the manuscript [...] [A] most meritorious pioneering edition..." - Jules Janssens, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXIV, January-April (2017)
All interested in the history of Islamic philosophy and the dissemination of Shīʿite culture, and anyone concerned with Middle Arabic or medieval Persian-to-Arabic translation techniques.