Islamic and Arab philosophy

In Fundamentalism and Secularization, Egyptian philosopher Mourad Wahba traces the historical origins of fundamentalism and secularization as ideas and practices in order to theorize their symbiotic relationship, and how it is impacted by global capitalism and, more recently, postmodernism.

Al-Ghazali and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.

This book explains how the leaders of the world''s largest Islamic organizations understand tolerance, explicating how politics works in a Muslim-majority democracy.

Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere.

Ibn Babawayh also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq was a prominent Twelver Shi'i scholar of hadith.

A comparative intercultural study of the techniques applied by scholars throughout the world to deal with problematic texts and artifacts.

Focusing on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.

This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values.

This book reflects upon the political philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal and his critique of nationalist ideology in the years leading up to India''s independence.

As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition.

What is happening in Islam is of concern to more than Muslims.

Existential anthropology is an approach inspired by existential and phenomenological thought to further our understanding of the human condition.

Sufi Aesthetics argues that the interpretive keys to erotic Sufi poems and their medieval commentaries lie in understanding a unique perceptual experience.

What have the concepts of modernity and secularization meant for Islamic tradition, culture and society?

This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.

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

In Contemporary Philosophical Theology, Charles Taliaferro and Chad Meister focus on key topics in contemporary philosophical theology within Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as well as Hinduism and Buddhism.

Ein Begleitbuch mit Reflexionen, Übungen und Gebete für jeden Tag des Ramadan.

Al-Hujwiri came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire.

Focused on Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba - an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qur'anic exegesis - this book engages critically with his theory of divine love to elucidate his impact on the wider field of Qur'anic scholarship.

This book addresses several dimensions of religious revelation.

This book explores the religious experiences of two notable figures who endured severe trials under authoritarian regimes: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) within the Islamic tradition, and Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) within the Russian Orthodox Christian tradition.

This book deals with the philosophy of Ibn Sina - Avicenna as he was known in the Latin West- a Persian Muslim who lived in the eleventh century, considered one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy.

This book, first published in 1958, examines the life and works of Avicenna, one of the most provocative figures in the history of thought in the East.

This book addresses several dimensions of religious revelation.

Sherman Jackson offers a translation and analysis of Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus, a work on spiritual education steeped in the classical Sufi tradition, yet directed to those who have no affiliation with Sufism in any institutionalized form.

Sufism is all too often associated just with 'mysticism' in the West.

Ibn al-'Arabi (d.

The fields of morality and ethics have been left out significantly from socio-scientific study in general and in economics and finance in particular.

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This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d.

This edited volume offers an incisive exploration of the intersection between Islam and evolutionary theory - a topic that remains a focal point of vigorous academic debate and inquiry.

Mulla Sadra is one of the most important Islamic philosophers after Avicenna.

Wie kann die Philosophie dekolonisiert werden?

An examination of the concept of freedom in nineteenth-century Arabic political thought, and how it relates to other modern ideologies.

An exploration of the Twelve Steps and their unique benefits for Christians.

Perhaps the most disturbing feature of globalization is the emergence of a new tribalism, an attitude expressed in the common phrase, "e;thank God we're not like them.

The rapid expansion of the halal industry and its markets has occurred not only in the heavily Islamic regions of Southeast Asia and the Middle East, but also in more unexpected countries such as Turkey, Japan, and South Korea, plus many others around the world.

Alexander's essay on the conversion of predicative propositions contains otherwise unknown information about the early history of Aristotle's logic.

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame.

In his seminary classes and his writings, Frederick Crowe, SJ (1915-2012) sought to understand anew the eternal identity of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit's role in the Church's life.