Sentence examples for classical commentators from inspiring English sources

He ably and critically used the classical commentators Themistius and Alexander of Aphrodisias and the falāsifah (Muslim philosophers) al-Fārābī, Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), and his own countryman Avempace (Ibn Bājjah).

Like d. this text has never attracted the attention of classical commentators.

The classical commentator Ibn Kathir provides a list of the early traditions mentioning the incident: A tradition transmitted on the authority of Anas bin Malik states that Muhammad split the moon after the pagan Meccans asked for a miracle.

It should be car-NAY-ghee, not CAR-nuh-ghee, but evidently only classical music radio commentators get it right.

Commentators, classical and modern, have tried to fill in the gaps.

She was an accomplished piano soloist, chamber musician, classical music radio commentator and writer, with additional interests in the arts, including photography, and literature.

Thus Marx was "both an exemplary French political pamphleteer and a minor commentator on classical British economics".

Lisa Appignanesi Alex Ross may have made his mark as a commentator on classical music, but the guest he brought with him to this week's Guardian first book award ceremony comes from a different tradition.

The Institute for Musicology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has placed online a fairly amazing trove of materials… Joseph Horowitz, one of the most formidable commentators on the classical scene, has a new blog at the ArtsJournal hub.

That production, which featured a script by Ms. Taymor and Glen Berger, placed its young superhero in a broader meta-context of Greek mythology and American Pop art, with a "geek chorus" of commentators and a classical goddess named Arachne as the morally ambiguous mentor of Spidey and his awkward alter ego, Peter Parker.

Other commentators have evoked "neo-classical Stravinsky", and concocted the term "Mahler-meets-minimalism", in attempts to pinpoint the opera's idiom.