Islamic & Arabic Philosophy

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...

Sadik Jalal Al-Azm was an internationally respected scholar and political commentator who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to con...

The philosophical work of Jean-Luc Marion has opened new ways of speaking about religious convictions and experiences. In this exploration of Mario...

Islamic microfinance is one of the most important sectors of Islamic social finance, which plays a very important role in curbing poverty and impro...

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 Eas...

The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leaders...

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by...

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H. Vanderburg reminds us that we have relied on discipline-based approaches for human knowing, doing, and organizing f...

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of I...

Once referred to by the New York Times as the Israeli Faulkner, A. B. Yehoshuas fiction invites an assessment of Israels Jewish inheritance and the...

Islamism as Philosophy explores some of the philosophical assumptions that frame the way in which the rise of Muslim political identity throughout ...

This book explores the religious experiences of two notable figures who endured severe trials under authoritarian regimes: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (...

This study tracks the progress of Suhrawards philosophy focusing on his critique of the axial doctrine of the categories and topics related to it: ...

The book explores the profound insights of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, an Islamic scholar, on the ecological crisis and its underlying causes. Nasr argues...

The main theme of A Ray of the Qurn is reflected in Sayyed Mahmoud Taleghani's unique and all-encompassing approach of using root definitions of ke...

If God commanded you to do something contrary to your moral conscience, how would you respond? Many believers of different faiths face a similar ch...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

Al-Sijz was a mathematician of the second half of the tenth century, a particularly fertile period for the history and philosophy of mathematics. ...

This book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are provided by Sadra and Hegel res...

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. The Kitab al-Kashf is one of the earliest Ismaili texts to have reached the pres...

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