Islamic & Arabic Philosophy

The rise of a significantly large (and young) Muslim population in the West, possessing no historical tradition of being a minority in a non-Muslim...

Across North America and Europe, Muslim chaplains are increasingly taking up institutional chaplaincy appointments, especially in the healt...

Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children-and to think...

This collection contains seven chapters that focus on relevant sources introducing the field of intercultural and transcultural studies in the Balk...

In how many ways can things be said to be one, how is oneness itself to be defined, and what is its relation to essence and existence? This book e...

Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) is a major figure in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotles logic. He studied philosophy and medicine in t...

Alexanders essay on the conversion of predicative propositions contains otherwise unknown information about the early history of Aristotles logic....

Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actio...

The Muqaddimah, often translated as Introduction or Prolegomenon, is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the grea...

Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), one of the most controversial thinkers in Islamic religious history, was repeatedly imprisoned during his lif...

Investigating the impact of Arabic medieval astrological and magical theories on early modern occult philosophy, this book argues that they provide...

This book offers a paradigm shift and fresh interpretation of Rumi's message. After being disentangled from the anachronistic connection with the M...

Revolutionary Gnosticism is a movement common to a great deal of modern and contemporary revolutionary phenomena such as Nazism, Bolshevism and Jac...

In this classic study, Herbert A. Davidson examines every medieval Arabic and Hebrew proof for the eternity of the world, the creation of the world...

The ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism contains profound wisdom about the cosmos, nature, human life, and education. Taoism seeks to be in harmon...

The subject of sorrow (huzn) and how it should be treated is a subject as old as mankind itself. Considered for the most part as something negative...

Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional ...

Abdel-Hakim Ourghi's Reform of Islam is an open indictment of prevailing conservative Islam which insists on the absolute subjugation of the body a...