Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought

Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson

The studies in this volume, which cover an unusually wide range of topics in the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought, explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and Islamic intellectual life from the beginnings of Islam to the present.

About the relation between human and animal communication? About the role of idiom in scientific discourse? About the relative value of logical definitions and lexicography's periphrastic definitions? By tracking the case of animal ...