“What Can We Learn from Alfarabi About Plato and Aristotle?”

Monday, Sept. 23, 2002 @ 7:30 p.m.
 Willard Smith Library

Charles E. Butterworth
Professor of Government and Politics
University of Maryland

Charles E. Butterworth is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and specializes in the study of medieval Islamic political philosophy. He has lectured and taught at universities in Egypt, the West Bank, Gaza, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Belorussia, France, Germany, Hungary, and Ukraine. His publications include critical editions of most of the Middle Commentaries written by Averroës on Aristotle’s logic, as well as translations of books and – treatises by Averroës, Alfarabi, Alrazi, and Maimonides. He is a member of several learned organizations, past-president of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), and president of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de l’Histoire de la Philosophie et la Science Arabe et Islamique