Averroës, 1126-1198; views on Sufism; philosophy and islam; comparati.

Prophets, Pre-Islamic; conduct of life; early works to 1800.

Muslims; Conduct of life; Quotations, maxims, etc.

Islamic sects; Motazilites; early works to 1800.

The Buyide wezir Abū I-Faḍl Ibn al-‘Amīd became famous as a poet and expert in epistolary literature, but also as a scholar and scientist. His letters, published here together with translation, commentary and complete glossary, inform us on questions of meteorology, physics, mechanics and psychology.