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Article: Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- October 1, 2000
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Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy. By HANS DAIBER, Two volumes. Handbuch der Orientalistik: Abteilung 1, der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, vol. 43. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1999. Pp. lv + 974; 548. HFI 756, $444.
In this monumental work Professor Daiber offers a list of "all hitherto known publications in western and non-western languages in the field of Islamic philosophy from the 15th century until the present, including Greek and Syriac sources of Islamic philosophy, its impact on Jewish and medieval Latin scholasticism and its repercussions in modern European and Islamic thought" (vol. I, p. vii). Not surprisingly this ambitious program required intense labor for ...