Islamic & Arabic philosophy books

An international folk hero with universal appeal, Nasrudin is often said to be the wisest fool that ever lived....  Read More >>

Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic...  Read More >>

Evenings with Idries Shah collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hafiz. The Sufis have been using carefully constructed...  Read More >>

How can it be that the same story is found in Scotland and also in Pre-Columbian America? What can account for the...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of traditional Sufi literature which offers spiritual guidance to individuals searching for...  Read More >>

The Magic Monastery differs from its predecessors in that it contains not only traditional tales, mostly unpublished...  Read More >>

The Magic Monastery differs from its predecessors in that it contains not only traditional tales, mostly unpublished...  Read More >>

Abū’l-Barakāt is often considered one of the most comprehensive medieval philosophers of the Arabic-Jewish milieu....  Read More >>

Philosophy in the Islamic world from the 9th to 11th centuries was characterized by an engagement with Greek philosophical...  Read More >>

This new critical edition of Maimonides' Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms by Gerrit Bos is the first with an...  Read More >>

Ethics in Islam provides the first major treatment of al-Tawhīdī's ethics, political thought, and social idealism,...  Read More >>

This book investigates Mulla Ṣadrā’s metaphysical principles of the Return (al-ma‘ād) that have been either partially...  Read More >>

Abū’l-Barakāt is a philosopher who wrote the Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar, a comprehensive metaphysics which challenged the...  Read More >>

The first major treatment of skepticism in Islam, this book explores the critical role of skeptical thinking in...  Read More >>

Introduces the life and thought of the controversial religious scholar who has inspired modernists, Salafis, revivalists,...  Read More >>

The commanding self in Sufi terminology is that mixture of primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone,...  Read More >>

Ali Akbar examines the works of four noted scholars of Islam: Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran),...  Read More >>

In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya's...  Read More >>

Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilization. What became of it, towards modernity?...  Read More >>

A 'Veiled Gazelle', as the great mystic Ibn Arabi explains in his Interpreter of Desires, is a subtlety, an organ...  Read More >>

A 'Veiled Gazelle', as the great mystic Ibn Arabi explains in his Interpreter of Desires, is a subtlety, an organ...  Read More >>

The commanding self in Sufi terminology is that mixture of primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone,...  Read More >>

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The present volume offers a complete critical Arabic edition of Ibn Ṭumlūs' opus on logic, entitled Compendium on...  Read More >>

This volume presents collected essays – some brand new, some republished, and others newly translated – on the...  Read More >>