He sat in the dark for a long time.
The problem? Most of Ibn Abi Dunya’s 200+ books no longer exist as physical manuscripts. They survive as fragments quoted by later scholars, or—if you were lucky—as rare lithographs in libraries in Medina, Istanbul, or Rampur. Omar had visited all three. ibn abi dunya books pdf english
He checked his hard drive. Nothing. The blog link now led to a 404 error. The Wayback Machine showed no record of the page ever existing. He sat in the dark for a long time
Who had translated these? The PDFs had no translator's name. The metadata only said: "Scanned from a private collection, Damascus, 1998." ibn abi dunya books pdf english