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ajiss-1027	Rizvi, Sajjad H.	Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Arithmetic and geometry: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of EPISTLES 1 & 2 By Nader El-Bizri, ed. and trans. (Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2012. 400 pages.)	2014.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1840	58	49	I would therefore take issue with part of this phrase translated – the phrase bi ḥasab al-ṭāqati al-basharīyah should be “insofar as is humanly possible” – as this standard formulation of the limits of knowledge goes back to the an- cients. Nader el-Bizri, the translator and editor of the series, is a historian of philosophy and science in the Islamic world and has recently been focusing on the history of geometry, mathematics, and optics and publishing widely on Ibn al-Haytham (d. 1040).	cache/ajiss-1027.pdf	txt/ajiss-1027.txt