I'll just make two quotations to stress the link on will and politics, one from Averroes and one from L.Wittgenstein:

"We say: This science, known as practical science, differs
essencially from the theoretical sciences. Now this is clear
inasmuch as its subject differs from the subject of each and every one of the theoretical sciences and its priciples differ from their principles. This is because the subject of this science is volitional things, the doings of which is within our power, and the principle of these things is WILL and choice;"
Averroes on Plato's Republic
trans. Ralph Lerner, Cornel University Press 1975.,p.3.
(Capital letters in WILL are mine.)

To understand the political aims and thoughts of Muslims which I observe that getting quite important for the US and her Allies nowadays, one has to master the use of the "UMMAT,MELLAT,DEEN,QAWM" as they are established in the Quran.

L.Wittgenstein said: "If you understand the workings of WILL in a

language, then you understand the language."

This translation of Averroes commentary is significantly better than the Butterworth, mainly because of the footnotes. For anyone to understand Aristotle is difficult enough, but this commentary is the best, and a necessary, first step. His commentary on the Isagoge is equally great.

Ibn Rushd or Averroes is one of the most important philosophers in the Islamic tradition, and also one of the most important of all commentators on Aristotle. And Charles Butterworth is one of the premiere translators of Averroes.

This particular text is a very important defense of philosophy against those (in Averroes's specific case, Muslims) who argued that philosophical reasoning is a violation of religious law. Such issues are still alive, more or less (for example, in the struggle between science and religion), so this book has more than merely antiquarian interest.

The translation is very clear, and, for those who read Arabic, it's helpful to have the original text on the facing page. Given the quality of the work, too, the book is surprisingly inexpensive.

Highly recommended.

This edition contains text of the commentary in the original Arabic only. Brief introduction in English. Cannot really evaluate, since I don't read Arabic.