Badawi: The Spring and Fall of Greek Thought

Badawi: The Spring and Fall of Greek thought

[Retrieved from Wikipedia English on 09/08/2019]

Abdur Rahman Badawi (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بدوى) (February 17, 1917 – July 25, 2002) was an Egyptian existentialistprofessor of philosophy and poet. He has been called the "foremost master of Arab existentialism." He authored more than 150 works, amongst them 75 which were encyclopaedic. He wrote easily in his native Arabic, English, Spanish, French, German and Italian, and read Greek, Latin and Persian. 

Listen to him speaking about himself below. And a good Arabic review of his career is to be found here عبد الرحمن بدوي.. من غياهب المخطوطات إلى الفيلولوجيا.

The Spring of Greek Thought,  Cairo 1943.

[Read it here in Archive.org :https://archive.org/details/plaintive27_gmail_20160603]

The Fall of Greek Thought

[Read the 1979 edition from Archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/elhilalymohamad_gmail_20180216_2020]

Plato's Menexenus into Arabic by Abullah Almosalammy

Menexenus (dialog) of Plato was translated into Arabic by Abullah Almosalammy  of Ain Shams University (Cairo) . The translation was published in Libya by the faculty of Arts of the Libyan University in 1972 while the late professor of Ain Shams University was teaching Greek and Latin there.

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