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Ibn Sin and Mysticism: Remarks and Admonitions SHAmS C. INATI, 1996 London, Kegan Paul International 114 pp., ISBN 0 7103 0482 X, hb L30.00
This book includes a translation of the fourth part of Ibn Sina's (Avicenna's) Isharat wat-Tanbihat("Remarks and Admonitions"), but the main part of the book comprises an introduction to the text. The translation itself is very well done, and Inati has chosen judiciously between similar English terms before deciding precisely how to represent the original Arabic. Her translation reproduces nicely the lapidary nature of the original, and the brevity of the work itself does call for a detailed introduction. The book by Ibn Sin& has had a long history of interpretation within Islamic philosophy, yet when one reads it for the first time one wonders how this could be possible. It seems to be a fairly straightforward account of...