Philosophy of religion

Rashid al-Din Hamadani's (d.

Rashid al-Din Hamadani's (d.

In the Persianate world, wisdom literature has a long history, dating back to pre-Islamic times.

Born into a family of scholars and literati in Samarqand, Muhammad 'Sultan' Mutribi Samarqandi (d.

In the Islamic world, the writing of biographical reference works has a very long tradition.

Ibn al-Farid (d.

Travel notebooks have existed almost ever since writing was invented.

In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, Brian Ogren offers a deep analysis of late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time.

Throughout history, the lands of Central Asia have seen empires come and go.

Nur al-Din Jahangir (d.

The Qur?

Mir Muhammad Baqir Khatunabadi (d.

The Persian Iskandar-nama or Alexander romance is a collection of mostly legendary stories about Alexander the Great, whose core narrative goes back to a Greek account of his life and accomplishments, written between the third century BCE and the first century CE.

This book provides a  phenomenological examination of the psychedelic experience.