Peter Heath

Peter Heath's insightful annotations prove that the central concern of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' is with the bounds of sense and the limitation of reason. Heath takes the reader on a fascinating walk through the thickets of philosophical blunders, logical fallacies, conceptual confusions and linguistic breakthroughs that decorate the landscape of Alice's world. As a result, Lewis Carroll is elevated to a place alongside such eminent philosophers as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass

The Philosopher's Alice

This detailed study of the parish clergy in England on the Eve of the break with Rome is based on a wide variety of documentary sources, both ecclesiastical and secular, ranging from diocesan records to sworn evidence offered in litigation and acc

The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation

Explores the use of allegory in the writing of the renowned eleventh-century Muslim philosopher known in the West as Avicenna, paying special attention to the ways he influenced theological, mystical, and literary thought in subsequent Islamic—and Western—intellectual and religious history.

With a Translation of the Book of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven

Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Explores the popular epic of Arabic storytelling by focusing on a particular example, The Life Story of 'Antar, purporting to recount the life of the famous pre-Islamic Arab poet and warrior. Considers the poem in the context of Arabic oral tradition and the storytelling of other Islamic peoples, in

Sīrat ʻAntar and the Arabic Popular Epic

The Thirsty Sword

Tzvetan Todorov

Wayne State University Press

Muhsin Mahdi

Fedwa Malti-Douglas

Michael Cooperson

Muhsin Jassim Ali

Heinz Grotzfeld

Nabia Abbott

Gustave E. von Grunebaum

Solomon D. Goitein

Jamel-Eddine Bencheikh

Andras Hamori

Roger Allen

Peter D. Molan

An authoritative guide to research inspired by the Arabian Nights, containing sixteen influential essays.

The Arabian Nights Reader

Peter Heath

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