"The goal of the book is to provide an anthology covering the reception of Plato's Republic in the Islamic world, with a focus on Averroes's outstanding but underappreciated commentary on Plato's most famous dialogue. Despite the publication of Ralph Lerner's excellent English translation almost 50 years ago, very few scholarly studies have been written on it. We propose the following chapters, keeping in mind that some might be changed owing to collaboration with contributors"--.

• Front Cover
• Contents
• Part One Averroes and His Teachers
• Introduction
• Imposing Alfarabi on Plato
• Ibn Bajja
• Part Two Poetry, Philosophy, and Logic
• Expelling Dialectics from the Ideal State
• Music, Poetry, and Politics in Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s “Republic”
• Part Three Law, Religion, and Philosophy
• Averroes on Family and Property in the Commentary on Plato’s “Republic”
• Notes on Averroes’s Political Teaching
• The Sharīʿa of the Republic
• An Indecisive Truth
• Part Four Wisdom, Government, and the Character of the Political Community
• Averroes between Jihad and McWorld
• The Essential Qualities of the Ruler in Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s “Republic”
• Natural Perfection or Divine Fiat
• Philosopher-Kings and Counselors
• Part Five Averroes’s Reception in Europe
• Three Readings of Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s “Republic” in Medieval Jewish Thought
• The Two Hebrew-into-Latin Translations of Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s “Republic”
• Selected Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index