Acknowledgements

These volumes owe a great deal to the pioneering work of Richard Lemay both in demonstrating the importance and influence of Abū Maʿšar (Abū Maʿshar and Latin Aristotelianism in the Twelfth Century, Beirut, 1962) and in making the first editions of the Arabic text and two Latin translations (Abū Maʿšar, Liber introductorii maioris ad scientiam judiciorum astrorum, 9 vols., Naples, 1995–1996).

It remains to thank the many people who have helped to improve our edition and the translation, and to find the sources for Abū Maʿšar ideas, thanks to many years of reading this text in classes at the Warburg Institute. These include Peter Adamson, Catarina Belo, Moya Carey, Mohammad Ilkhani, Saira Malik, Sajjad al-Rizvi and Sophia Vasalou. We would also like to thank George Sawa, Geert Jan van Gelder, Liana Saif, Peter Pormann, Jamil and Sally Ragep, Benno van Dalen, Saiyad Ahmad, Raymond Mercier, Josep Casulleras, Yossef Rapoport, Dag Nikolaus Hasse and Shlomo Sela for their careful reading and correcting of specific sections of the Arabic text; Helena Avelar, Luís Ribeiro, Dorian Greenbaum and Rembrandt Duits, for their help on astrological questions; Stephan Heilen and Dorian Greenbaum, for revising the Greek text of the Great Introduction after the death of David Pingree, and Stephan, together with Dimitri Gutas, for advice on the Arabic-Greek and Greek-Arabic glossaries; Michael Noble and Juan Acevedo for being always ready to help; Akiko Iko and Maureen O’Rourke for helping to make the indexes; and Paul Kunitzsch for Part VI and index 3. We are grateful to the libraries who have supplied us with copies of their manuscripts, and Kyoto Sangyo University and the Warburg Institute for providing such congenial surroundings in which to work together. Finally, we would like to thank the editors for accepting these volumes into the series Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, published by Brill Academic Publishers, Teddi Dols for seeing the volumes through the press, and Ivo Geradts and Johannes Rustenburg from TAT Zetwerk for the great care with which they have prepared the volumes for publication. Sadly, Keiji Yamamoto did not live to see this book published; he died on July 17, 2018, soon after submitting the text to the publishers.