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The Medieval Church · c. 960–974
On the Reformation of Morals
Tahdhib al-Akhlaq
Yahya ibn Adi · 893–974
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What it is
A philosophical ethics of the soul's three faculties and the training of character, written without appeal to scripture so that Muslims, Jews, and Christians could all use it.
Why it lasted
A Christian philosopher in Baghdad writing ethics for a shared intellectual culture — and a leading figure in the translation of Aristotle into Arabic.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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