The improvement of the moral qualities : an ethical treatise of the eleventh century by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, printed from an unique Arabic manuscript, together with a translation, and an essay on the place of Gabirol in the history of the development of Jewish ethics

Author(s)

• Wise, Stephen Samuel
• Ibn Gabirol, ca.ca. 1070

Bibliographic Information

The improvement of the moral qualities : an ethical treatise of the eleventh century by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, printed from an unique Arabic manuscript, together with a translation, and an essay on the place of Gabirol in the history of the development of Jewish ethics

by Stephen S. Wise

AMS Press, 1966

Other Title

Kitāb Iṣlāḥ al-akhlāq ʿalá raʾy afāḍil al-hukamā al- mutaqaddimīn

Note

English and Arabic

Reprint. Originally published: Columbia University Press, c1902, issued in series: Columbia University Oriental studies, v. 1

Arabic text set up and stereotyped by W. Drugulin, Leipzig, Germany

From a manuscript in the Bodleian library, Oxford

Includes bibliographical references

• NCID: BA48919589
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engaraheb
• Original Language Code: ara
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 117, 47 p., [1] leaf of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B759.A53
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethics