The Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided - but also unimpeded - by society, language, or tradition. Hayy's discoveries about God, n...(展开全部)

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not...(展开全部)

He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botani...(展开全部)

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not...(展开全部)

The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism reformulates our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean through the remarkable life and career of Moroccan polymath Ahmad Ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (ca. 1570-1641). By showing Hajarî’s active engagement with some of the most promine...(展开全部)

译者：伊斯梅尔.马金鹏，1913年出生于山东济南，考入济南木家车门清真寺私立达成师范学校念经、念书六年，是马松亭阿訇教授《古兰经》的第一批学生。学习期间生活艰苦，每天吃穆斯林大著捐助的两顿小米稀粥、玉米饼面子和一两根水盐萝卜。毕业时已能背诵11卷《古兰经》，毕业后由一名捐助者善意的“赛哇布”，被派往埃及爱资哈尔大学深造。1950年出任上海福佑路清真寺教长，1953年任北京大学阿拉伯语教研室讲师、副教授，从事阿语教学翻译六十年，做过周恩来总理阿语翻译。精研包括《膳食指南》在内的阿文典籍何止万册，译作有《伊本.白图泰游记》等二十部。1989年七十六岁开始根据埃及阿拉伯文《古兰经学》要求，选用《古兰经》注释范本《泰伯雷注释》、《贝达威注释》、《耐赛菲注释》、《两哲俩伦丁注释》译注《古兰经》。每天清晨先诵读，然后伏案翻译，历时十年，与疾病搏斗中用心血浇注《<...(展开全部)

Journeying through a dark, dark house, a black cat surprises the only inhabitant of the abandoned residence

An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, 'nothing' is one of the most powerful ideas the human mind has ever conceived. This shor...(展开全部)

布莱恩·奥康纳（Brian O’Connor），当代社会哲学家，爱尔兰都柏林大学学院哲学教授，毕业于牛津大学哲学系，曾在剑桥大学做过访问学者，著有《德国唯心主义选集与导读》《闲散的哲学》《阿多诺与消极辩证法》

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions ar...(展开全部)