Shams C. Inati

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Shams C. Inati is a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, and the Department of Philosophy at Villanova University.{{cite web | title=Shams Inati | website=www16.homepage.villanova.edu | url=http://www16.homepage.villanova.edu/shams.inati/ | access-date=2019-09-25}} She has authored many works and has translated numerous Arabic philosophical texts, with an emphasis on Ibn Sina and other medieval Islamic thinkers. Much of her work focuses on the problem of evil, metaphysics, and historical dilemmas in the Middle East.{{cite web | title=The Problem of Evil : Ibn Sina's Theodicy (Shams C. Inati) | website=islamicbookstore.com | date=2012-04-01 | url=http://www.islamicbookstore.com/b8922.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401144859/http://www.islamicbookstore.com/b8922.html | archive-date=2012-04-01 | url-status=dead | access-date=2019-09-25}}{{cite web | title=Our Philosophy- Falsafatuna | website=Al-Islam.org | date=2013-01-26 | url=https://www.al-islam.org/our-philosophy-falsafatuna-ayatullah-sayyid-muhammad-baqir-sadr | access-date=2019-09-25}}{{cite book|last=Inati|first=Shams Constantine|title=An Examination of Ibn Sina's Solution for the Problem of Evil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hs-MoAEACAAJ|year=1984|publisher=University Microfilms}} The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies praised her "scholarly, well researched and well analysed commentary" on Ibn Sina.{{cite journal | first1=Ian Richard | title=Shams Inati: Ibn Sīnā and mysticism: Remarks and admonitions. Part four. xiv, 114 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996, £38,$59.50 | journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | last1=Netton | year=1998 | volume=61 | pages=133 | doi=10.1017/S0041977X00015871}} Her work has also been cited or reviewed in the Middle East Journal,{{cite journal | title=Review of Ibn Sina and Mysticism: Remarks and Admonitions | date=1997 | last=Razavi | first=Mehdi Amin | journal=Middle East Journal | volume=51 | issue=4 | jstor=4329142 | pages=632–633 | issn=0026-3141}} The Journal of Religion,{{cite journal | first1=Michael A. | journal=The Journal of Religion | issue=1 | doi=10.1086/490168 | jstor=1205871 | last1=Sells | title=Reviewed work: Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism: Remarks and Admonitions, Shams C. Inati | year=1998 | volume=78 | pages=162–163}} the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly,{{cite journal | first1=Thérèse-Anne | title=Medieval Islamic Thought and the "What is X?" Question | journal=American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly | last1=Druart | year=1999 | volume=73 | pages=1–8 | doi=10.5840/acpq19997311}} and the Journal of Semitic Studies.{{cite journal | first1=F. | title=Reviews: Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism: Remarks and Admonitions Part IV | journal=Journal of Semitic Studies | last1=Sobieroj | year=1999 | volume=44 | issue=1 | pages=149–151 | doi=10.1093/jss/XLIV.1.149}}