Abstract

The impact of Platonism on Islamic philosophy has been underscored by a number of scholars in recent years, and amply demonstrated by the publication of important Platonic texts in Arabic. (1) However, difficulties of transmission and interpretation continue to obscure the subject of Arabic Platonism. Two reasons appear to be at the root of these difficulties: (a) Not a single part of the Platonic corpus has reached us, in an unadulterated or complete form; although there is some evidence (2) that the Timaeus and the Laws,

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