On Arithmetic and Geometry: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 1 & 2

El-Bizri, Nader (Editor) / El-Bizri, Nader (Translator)

ISBN 10: 019965560X / ISBN 13: 9780199655601

Published by OUP in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013

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cri blg edition. 400 pages. Arabic language. 9.21x6.06x1.26 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Arithmetic and Geometry: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 1 & 2
• Publisher: OUP in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019965560X
• ISBN 13: 9780199655601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

This is the first critical edition of the first and second Epistles of the Brethren Purity in Arabic with a fully annotated English translation.

About the Author

Nader El-Bizri is the General Editor of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity series. He is a Reader at the University of Lincoln, a Chercheur Associé at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and a Visiting Research Associate in Philosophy at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He is co-editor of a book series in Phenomenology (Kluwer Academic Publishers), and the Editor of the 'Islam' division of the Springer Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. He is the author of The Phenomenological Quest between Avicenna and Heidegger (New York, 2000), and the editor of The Ikhwãn al-Safã?' and their Rasã'il (London-New York: OUP-IIS, 2008), and of Roshdi Rashed's Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, Volume 1 (London: Routledge, 2011).