A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552-1610
R. Po Chia Hsia
Oxford, 2010
266.2092 R491h
"Ronnie Po-chia Hsia's A Jesuit in the Forbidden City is hands down the best scholarly biography of Ricci to date, and unlikely to be surpassed ... the book provides an account that is accessible as well as thorough." -Timothy Brook, Literary Review
"Deeply learned yet rivetingly readable, R Po-Chia Hsia's biography introduces a remarkable figure whose life represents a dramatic cultural collision of east and west." - Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
"Hsia enables us to see the Jesuit's achievement in a much fuller and richer context than hitherto... he deserves our considerable gratitude for leaving us with such a vivid and affecting, yet critically acute, portrait." - Simon Ditchfield, University of York
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Al-Ghazali
BYU, 2000
297.261 g411I
"Al-Ghazali is considered the greatest Muslim scholar in history, influencing later Medieval and Renaissance philosophers and theologians in the West. This 11th century book by the Persian theologian, jurist and philosopher brings out contradictions in the thoughts of [earlier Muslim and Classical] philosophers about God and the universe, arguing for the Islamic faith preeminently, without discarding Aristotelian logic...Ghazali's placing of Greek logic at the feet of monotheistic theology was a precursor to Aquinas, the latter openly indebted to the former." -Martin Rubiofantini