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- University of Hawai'I Press
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- Copyright © 2009 University of Hawai'i Press
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- 1529-1898
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Abstract
BOOK REVIEWS Maestros de Occidente: Estudios sobre el pensamiento andalusi. By A. Martinez ´ ´ Lorca. Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2007. Pp. 264. Reviewed by Massimo Campanini State University of Milano Maestros de Occidente: Estudios sobre el pensamiento andalusi is a collection of ´ seventeen papers by Andres Martinez Lorca, sixteen of which were previously pub´ lished in different places between 1992 and 2007. The book is divided into three parts. The first is devoted to general problems: the birth of philosophy in Andalusia, Aristotle's philosophical language in the translations of William of Moerbeke and Michael Scot, and the Almohad Reform in the Muslim West. The second part is devoted to a wide range of Muslim thinkers and philosophers, from Ibn Hazm to Ibn Tufayl, and from Averroes and Maimonides to ¨ Ibn Khaldun. The third part is devoted to two prominent Spanish Arabists, Miguel ¯ Asin Palacios and Emilio Garcia Gomez. Thus, both the whole history of Arab Is´ ´ lamic thought in Andalusia through its protagonists and some important contributions to Spanish historiography on the same subject are covered. Martinez Lorca ´ argues that we can understand Andalusian philosophy only if it is appropriately contextualized historically. Many
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Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jan 11, 2009