Arabic and Islamic Texts in Translation
Ibn Sina Site or Avicenna 980-1037
Medieval Sourcebook: Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (973-1037): On Medicine
Ibn Rushd or Averroës 1126-1198
- Tahfut at Tahafut (Incoherence of the Incoherence) Complete English translation in HTML...no notes!
- One big file. (1334 kb) (E-text) HTML
- Notes on the translation (E-text) PDF 14.4 Megs.
- On the harmony of Religion and Philosophy (E-text)
- A better HTML version in multiple pages. (Link with E-text)
- New Translation by G. F. Hourani (no intro - no footnotes
- A newer Translation: Decisive Treatise & Epistle Dedicatory (Averroes), a parallel English-Arabic text translated and introduced with notes by C. E. Butterworth (Information link)
- Kitab al-kashf ‘an manahij al-adilla- translated into English as Faith & Reason in Islam.
Introduction - Table of contents (link).These three works form a trilogy on the interaction of philosophy and theology.- Bidayat al-Mujtahid (Distinguished Jurist) (Link-Intro/Contents)
- Ibn Rushd's Metaphysics. C. Genequand (PDF)
- Three short commentaries: on Topics, Rhetoric, Poetics. C. Butterworth (dual Language PDF)
- In Hebrew. (Image of Manuscript.)
- Middle Commentary on Poetics translated by C. Butterworth. (link: - book info.)
- Averroes Latin Corpus project. (link) By Prof. Gerhard Endreß.
Ibn Battuta 1307-1377
Ibn Kaldun 1332 - 1406 / 732 - 808
English
Ibn Khaldun on the The Mahdi, lengthy but "unedited" translation by Abdassamad Clarke.
Various selections (Introduction, Observations on History, Estimating the Size of Armies, The Science of Society, Attributes of Man, Empires have Their Natural Term) from "HumanisticTexts.com"
The Black Plague in the Middle East. Excerpt from the Muqaddima. From The Black Plague a project by George Ouwendijk and Bill Rednour (CCNY).
Ibn Khaldun on the Sufis passage.
Arabic