Shams C. Inati is a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, and the Department of Philosophy at

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. She has authored many works and has translated numerous Arabic philosophical texts, with an emphasis on Ibn Sina and other medieval Islamic thinkers. Much of her work focuses on the

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, and historical dilemmas in the

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. The ''Bulletin of the'' ''

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'' praised her "scholarly, well researched and well analysed commentary" on Ibn Sina. Her work has also been cited or reviewed in the

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, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, and the

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Selected works

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References

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