{"product_id":"the-political-writings-political-regime-and-summary-of-platos-laws-9781501746796","title":"The Political Writings: Political Regime and Summary of Plato's Laws","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eButterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi's important political writings. \u003c\/b\u003e― \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlfarabi (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 of Alfarabi's\u003ci\u003e Political Regime\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSummary of Plato's Laws\u003c\/i\u003e, accompanied by introductions that discuss the background for each work and explore its teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition, the texts are carefully annotated to aid the reader in following Alfarabi's argument. An Arabic-English\/English-Arabic glossary allows interested readers to verify the way particular words are translated. Throughout, Butterworth's method is to translate consistently the same Arabic word by the same English word, rendering Alfarabi's style in an unusually faithful and yet approachable manner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles E. Butterworth is Emeritus professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339386261778,"sku":"9781501746796","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_caf0bbea-d85f-4536-82de-9366a9efe760.jpg?v=1728003550","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-political-writings-political-regime-and-summary-of-platos-laws-9781501746796","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}