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Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College
Park, Charles Butterworth specializes in medieval Arabic and Islamic political
philosophy. Pursuit of this academic interest has permitted him to live and study
in most of the Arabic speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa
as well as in Europe. From time to time, he has lectured and taught at universities
in Egypt, the West Bank, Gaza, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Turkey, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Belorussia, France, Germany, Hungary, and
Ukraine.
Professor Butterworth's publications include critical editions of most of
the Middle Commentaries written by Averroes on Aristotle's logic; translations
of books and treatises by Averroes, Alfarabi, and Alrazi, as well as Maimonides;
and studies of different aspects of the political teaching of these and other
thinkers in the ancient, medieval, and modern tradition of philosophy. Butterworth
has also written monograph analyses of the political thought of Frantz Fanon
and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He is a member of several learned organizations and
past-president of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS)
as well as of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de l'Histoire de la Philosophie
et la Science Arabe et Islamique (SIHSPAI).
Trained in political philosophy and Arabic as well as Islamic civilization
at the University of Chicago, where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in political
science, Charles Butterworth has also studied at the University of Ayn Shams
in Egypt, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Nancy in France (receiving
a doctorate in philosophy from the latter). He received his B.A. from Michigan
State University.
Before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland, Professor Butterworth
taught at the University of Chicago and Federal City College (now the University
of the District of Columbia). He has also taught at St. John's College, Georgetown
University, and Harvard University, in addition to Marmara University, the University
of Bordeaux, the University of Grenoble, the University of Paris I (Sorbonne),
the University of Paris X (Nanterre), and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
For several years he was the Principal Investigator for the Smithsonian sponsored
Project in Medieval Islamic Logic in Cairo, Egypt. He has also been the Principal
Investigator for a project on medieval Islamic logic sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Humanities and has organized a two-week Salzburg seminar on "The
Commonality of Cultural Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."
A long-standing interest in the Palestinian-Israeli debate led to his involvement
with CEEPAT (Continuing Education and Extension Project for Palestinians and
Teachers on the West Bank and in Gaza). CEEPAT, a program for higher education
addressed primarily to teachers in service, seeks to sharpen thinking skills
and increase general learning so that teachers might come to think of themselves
as having something worthwhile to pass on to their students and gain the confidence
to do so without resorting to methods that stifle the interest of their students.
In 1992-1993, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars in Washington, D.C. during which time he pursued a project on the relationship
between revelation and political philosophy. From October 1999 until March 2000,
Butterworth held a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research and Lecturing Award at the
Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany and from May through August
2000 a German Academic Exchange Professorship at the same university. Also, during
May and June 2000, he gave a series of lectures at the Institut du Monde Arabe
in Paris entitled "Des origines de la philosophie politique en Islam."
At the University of Maryland, he has been recognized as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
(1990-91) and, in 2001-02, for an award in Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship
granted by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Alfarabi,
The Political Writings: "Selected
Aphorisms" and Other Texts
Translated and annotated by Charles E. Butterworth. Cornell
University Press.
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Averroes' Decisive Treatise and
Epistle Dedicatory
Translation, Charles E. Butterworth.
Brigham Young University Press.
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Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics
Translated and introduced
by Charles Butterworth. St. Augustine’s Press.
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Averroes’ Middle Commentaries
on Aristotle's Categories and De Interpretatione
Translation, with notes and introduction by Charles Butterworth
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The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy
into Europe / Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 39
Edited by Charles E. Butterworth and Blake Andreé Kessel
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The Reveries of the Solitary Walke and other writings (Collected
Writings of Rousseau, Vol 8)
Charles Butterworth, Alexandra Cook, Terence E. Marshall, Translators.
Christopher Kelly, Editor
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