PREFACE
I
wish to express my warmest thanks to the Trustees of the Gibb Memorial Fund for making the publication of
this work possible, and especially to Professor Sir
Hamilton Gibb, who asked me to undertake the work and who has not only
read the proofs but has continually given me his interest and encouragement. I am also deeply indebted to Dr.
R. Walzer, who has read the proofs, carefully checked the references in
my notes, and composed the indexes and the Greek-Arabic and Arabic-Greek vocabularies. I have
also to thank Dr. S. M. Stern for his help in
completing the subject-index. Finally, I
wish to pay a tribute to one who is no longer amongst us, Father Maurice Bouyges, without whose admirable text
the work could never have been undertaken.
The
marginal numbers in Vol. I refer to the text of Father
Bouyges’s edition of the Tahafut al Tahafut in his Bibliotheca
Arabica Scholasticorum, vol. iii, Beyrouth, 1930.
The
asterisks indicate different readings from those to be found in Bouyges’s text:
cf. the Appendix, Vol. I, pp, 364 ff.