Islamic and Arab philosophy

This book engages with the work of Miskawayh, a formative Islamic Philosopher in the 11th century, who is acknowledged as the founder of Islamic Moral Philosophy.

This highly original book presents an alternative vision of globalization and explores the epistemology, derived from the Qur'an and the Prophetic guidance Sunnah, that underpins the systemic unity at the heart of the Islamic concept of world-system.

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The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries.

Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings, and death continues to haunt them.

A study of the life and thought of the Iranian philosopher Ahmad Fardid and the development of political philosophy in post-revolutionary Iran.

Islam and Morality considers how Islam, the Qur'an, and other Islamic texts have approached the ethics of a variety of contemporary and historical issues.

Refine your heart and mind with the wisdom of Islamic spirituality"e;To live a meaningful life-one that brings us joy, contentment and fulfillment-we have to do the inner spiritual work of becoming a more complete human being.

Examines how Galen and his medieval Arabic successors invoke Plato''s Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field.

A study of the writings of Ibn Barrajān, an influential pioneer of intellectual mysticism in the Muslim West.

This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period.

What is Sufism?

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This book presents a new, contemporary introduction to medieval philosophy as it was practiced in all its variety in Western Europe and the Near East.

This is a second, revised edition of Kupperman's introduction to Asian philosophy via its canonical texts.

Ibn al-Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam is a translation of one of the most important works written on Islamic Mysticism.

The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the future of Muslim societies for over a century.

What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the West?

This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar.

Method in Theology stands with Insight as Bernard Lonergan's most important work.

This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Qur'an, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through Western analytical philosophy.

Originally published in 1926, An Introduction to the History of Medicine is a compilation of reliable and essential contributions to the subject of the history of medicine.

The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the future of Muslim societies for over a century.

The book, first published in 1906, outlines the religious, ceremonial, civil and moral laws and regulations of Islam.

This book deals with the medieval history of Islam in the Indus Valley.

In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them.

This book presents a selection of texts by the most celebrated philosophers of the classical period of Islam.

What is Sufism?

Meeting the ever increasing interest in Islam and Sufism, this book is the first comprehensive study of Sufi Qur'anic commentaries and includes translations of many writings previously unavailable in English.

The influence of classical antiquity on the religious disciplines, theology, mysticism and law of Islam cannot be overestimated.

The works of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan are one of the great spiritual treasures of the world.

Polarized debates about 'Islam' and 'the West' are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies is a comprehensive one volume reference guide to Islam and study in this area.

Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the nature of contemporary critique have inspired major figures in postcolonial theory, deconstruction, and beyond.

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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today.

Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad.

Narratives of Jihadi-Salafi operations are often filled with praise for what are considered exemplary acts of self-renunciation in the vein of early Islamic tradition.

For whom was the Hebrew Bible written?

Originally published in 1967, this Companion is designed to help readers of the Qur'an by giving them necessary background information.

This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar.

A contemporary philosopher of Tunisian origin, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is here published in English for the first time.

Combining a historical perspective that traces lines of continuity and change in Arab liberalism, an integrative discussion of cross-sectional themes, and a comparative analysis of the West, Turkey and Iran, this book seeks to enrich our knowledge of liberal thought in the Arab Middle East.

Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments.

This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present.

The book explains Sadra's theory of the nature of afterlife.