Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

This volume discusses the origin and structure of the universe in mystical Islam (Sufism) with special reference to parallel realms of existence and their interaction.

First published in 1973, The Secret and Sublime is a warmly sympathetic account of Taoism, a colourful religion and way of life.

This book provides the first presentation of the bilingual textual material that illustrates the transmission of Islamic astronomy to scientists of the Indian Sanskritic tradition.

The Anonymous Philosophical Treatise is here presented to the western world for the first time.

From antiquity to the 16th century, translation united culturally the peoples in the historical West (from Bactria to the shores of the Atlantic) and fueled the production and circulation of knowledge.