Swaraj Paul is the author of Surface Coatings: Science and Technology, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.
Oliver Leaman has written yet another challenging and iconoclastic work. This is a useful and imaginative project and clearly fills a need! Leaman is an accomplished and productive author and the book will be of genuine and considerable interest. -- Professor Lenn E. Goodman, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Oliver Leaman is a very distinguished, internationally regarded scholar of philosophy! his profound philosophical knowledge enables him to apply and analyse concepts of aesthetics to a multitude of art forms. -- Professor Ian R. Netton, University of Leeds ... although it claims to be but an introduction to the subject, it is an engaging and comprehensive one, with up-to-the-minute, primary-sourced chapters on literature, music, the Qur'an and medieval philosophies of seeing, not to mention the four on the visual arts. -- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Oliver Leaman has written yet another challenging and iconoclastic work. This is a useful and imaginative project and clearly fills a need! Leaman is an accomplished and productive author and the book will be of genuine and considerable interest. Oliver Leaman is a very distinguished, internationally regarded scholar of philosophy! his profound philosophical knowledge enables him to apply and analyse concepts of aesthetics to a multitude of art forms. ... although it claims to be but an introduction to the subject, it is an engaging and comprehensive one, with up-to-the-minute, primary-sourced chapters on literature, music, the Qur'an and medieval philosophies of seeing, not to mention the four on the visual arts.