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Max Horten

ماكس هورتن

Notable figure 1874–1945 · Source: Horten, Max, TDV Islam Ansiklopedisi; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 3, al-Matwari, pp. 232–233 · Second source: Max Horten, Islamic philosophy: studies and reviews, Frankfurt 2000, CiNii

Field: Translation

Affiliation

German versions of al-Farabi's Fusus and Ibn Sina's Shifa

Biography

A German from Elberfeld, he studied in Beirut and Jerusalem (1898–1900), took his doctorate at Bonn (1904) and became a professor there. He translated into German al-Farabi's Fusus al-hikam (1906), part of Ibn Sina's Shifa (1907–1909), al-Suhrawardi's Hikmat al-ishraq (1912) and Ibn Rushd's Tahafut al-tahafut (1913). His book on al-Razi's Muhassal (1912) carries a glossary of Arabic philosophical terms.