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Silence. Then his advisor said: "Omar, those books don't exist. I've been in this field forty years. No one has translated them."

Two years later, Omar published his thesis. In the acknowledgements, he thanked "the translator whose name I never learned, and whose files I could not keep." ibn abi dunya books pdf english

He downloaded a folder: 47 files. Each was a PDF. Each was a full English translation of works like Kitab al-Zuhd (The Book of Asceticism), Kitab al-Mawt (The Book of Death), Kitab al-Tawbah (The Book of Repentance). Silence

He laughed. It had to be fake. The man had never been translated into English as a set. Silence. Then his advisor said: "Omar