Focusing on the extensive collection of over 2,000 Arabic manuscripts, this catalogue highlights significant works acquired by Princeton University Library since the 1950s. It offers detailed information about many previously unknown or unrecorded texts, showcasing the importance of these manuscripts in understanding Arabic literature and history.
The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds
Focusing on Islamic theodicy, this comprehensive study explores unique Islamic perspectives on the problem of evil and the concept of the best possible world. It highlights the distinct solutions offered within Islamic thought while drawing parallels to Western philosophies, particularly Leibniz's approach. The book aims to deepen the understanding of how different cultures grapple with fundamental philosophical questions regarding the nature of good and evil.
Bringing together Eric Ormsby's entire poetic oeuvre thus far, including a healthy selection of previously unpublished poems, Time's Covenant is timeless, by one of America's best poets. Essential reading.
Eric Ormsby is a poet who writes prose that is both graceful and hard-headed. With an outspoken contempt for cant and literary persiflage, Ormsby ranges over a surprising array of writers and literatures. Each essay involves a new and sometimes startling viewpoint, whether on Hart Crane's homosexuality and its effect on his poems or the strange and twisted, yet redeeming, place which Shakespeare held in his own family history. From American and Canadian poetry to Classical Arabic literature Ormsby brings a fresh slant and incisive expression to his prose. What was Franz Kafka doing at a ski resort in the last years of his life and what did he do there besides tobogganing? Everyone knows that Jorge Luis Borges was bookish, but did you know he was bloodthirsty as well? How is Pat Lowther's posthumous reputation as a poet connected with the brutal circumstances of her murder? These and other mysteries are explored in the 17 elegant essays that make up Eric Ormby's new book.