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Works

Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.
Checked on 2026-10-31
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TraditionAll (12)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (1)Sufism (2)Philosophy (2)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (7)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (2)Scripture and exegesis (0)Ḥadīth and the Prophet's life (0)Law (0)Creed and kalām (0)Metaphysics and cosmology (0)Sciences of letters and names (0)Counsel and governance (2)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
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In the readerAll (2)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (2)

2 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Commentary on Plato's Republicجوامع سياسة أفلاطونIbn Rushd (Averroes)Counsel and governance6th century AHArabicListed only
Regime (Rule) of the solitaryتدبير المتوحدIbn Bājja (Avempace)Counsel and governance6th century AHArabicListed only

Records

Commentary on Plato's Republic

جوامع سياسة أفلاطون

Jawāmiʿ siyāsat Aflāṭūn

Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1126–1198)

Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 6th century AH · Listed only

Ibn Rushd's commentary on Plato's Republic, kept in Hebrew; it takes the Republic as the political philosophy he lacked in Aristotle's Politics.

Attribution
authentic: SEP: he wrote a commentary on Plato's Republic and begins it by saying he will abstract the demonstrative arguments and remove the dialectical ones. checked in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ibn Rushd [Averroes]”
Date
c. 1194 (draft; unchecked) (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • E. I. J. Rosenthal (ed. and tr.), Averroes' Commentary on Plato's Republic (Cambridge UP, 1956): the Hebrew text with English translation; the Arabic original is lost · cite only probable
Translations
  • Ralph Lerner, Averroes on Plato's Republic (Cornell UP, 1974) · en · cite only probable
  • Rosenthal 1956 (with the Hebrew text) · en · cite only probable
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

  • Resonance, not influence: Opinions of the people of the virtuous city The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
  • Lineage: Republic It is a commentary on the Republic (SEP, which also notes that its brevity does not show deep knowledge of the whole text). Confidence: high. checked in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ibn Rushd [Averroes]”; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “al-Farabi”

Regime (Rule) of the solitary

تدبير المتوحد

Tadbīr al-mutawaḥḥid

Ibn Bājja (Avempace) (c. 1085–1139)

Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 6th century AH · Listed only

In an imperfect city the philosopher must govern himself alone and perfect his intellect by himself: the political question turns inward.

Attribution
authentic: SEP gives it as his Tadbīr al-mutawaḥḥid, with Asín Palacios's edition and Spanish translation and Dunlop's 1945 article. checked in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ibn Bajja [Avempace]”
Date
early 12th c., Saragossa, Fez (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • M. Asín Palacios (ed. and Spanish tr.), El régimen del solitario (Madrid, 1946), as cited in the SEP bibliography · cite only checked in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ibn Bajja [Avempace]”
Translations
  • Lawrence Berman in Lerner and Mahdi (1963) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

  • Resonance, not influence: Opinions of the people of the virtuous city The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
  • Lineage: Republic SEP: Avempace reads and quotes Plato, and turns the analogy the other way: the Republic takes the soul as the model of the city, he starts from the ideal city and carries its order into the solitary soul. A documented reading, with the direction reversed. Confidence: high. checked in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ibn Bajja [Avempace]”