"Shihadeh’s book combines an important historical and philological contribution with rich philosophical analysis. Even readers who think they can afford to skip knowing about the relatively obscure al-Masʿūdī should consult it, if they have any interest in Avicenna’s philosophy or its reception."
Peter Adamson in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Volume 79 - Issue 2 - June 2016.
"Shihadeh’s painstaking efforts in this study-cum-edition have finally supplied scholars with the missing first episode in the long story of the commentary tradition on Ibn Sīnā’s Ishārāt. Al-Mas‘ūdī’s relatively concise commentary has also, until now, been a missing piece within the wider puzzle of the dialogic engagement of kalām and falsafa during the sixth/twelfth century and beyond."
Toby Mayer in: Nazariyat, Volume 3 - Issue 1 - November 2016.