Islamic & Arabic philosophy books

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Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction

Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction...

Author: Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
ISBN: 9781138229471
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This thematic introduction to classical Islamic philosophy focuses on the most prevalent philosophical debates of...  Read More >>

Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible

Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of...

Author: Mark Glouberman
ISBN: 9781487508982
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how...  Read More >>

Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity

Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge...

Author: Khurram Hussain (Lehigh University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350248861
Format: Paperback
$64.99

What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the West? Sayyid Ahmad Khan lived in a time of...  Read More >>

How Do We Know? The Social Dimension of Knowledge: Volume 89

How Do We Know? The Social Dimension of Knowledge: Volume...

Author: Julian Baggini
ISBN: 9781009077194
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam

Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam

Author: Rodrigo Adem ,  Edmund Hayes
ISBN: 9789004464391
Format: Hardback
$430.32

This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʿi Islam. It presents...  Read More >>

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond: Volume 3: From God s Wisdom to Science: A. Islamic Theology and Sufism, B. History of Science

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond: Volume 3: From...

Author: Hans Daiber
ISBN: 9789004441798
Format: Hardback
$390.72

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber's scattered...  Read More >>

Muslim Rule in Medieval India: Power and Religion in the Delhi Sultanate

Muslim Rule in Medieval India: Power and Religion in...

Author: Fouzia Farooq Ahmed
ISBN: 9780755642939
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Fills a gap in the historiography on Delhi Sultanate by analyzing actual power dynamics.  Read More >>

Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 2: Khayyami Millennium: Reporting the Discovery and the Reconfirmation of the True Dates of Birth and Passing of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123)

Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat...

Author: Mohammad H Tamdgidi
ISBN: 9781640980075
Format: Paperback
$208.56

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Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 2: Khayyami Millennium: Reporting the Discovery and the Reconfirmation of the True Dates of Birth and Passing of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123)

Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat...

Author: Mohammad H Tamdgidi
ISBN: 9781640980068
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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The Cactus Flower زهرة الصبار: ديوان شعر

The Cactus Flower زهرة الصبار:...

Author: د صفاء رفعت
ISBN: 9781527295568
Format: Paperback
$39.60

هذا الكتاب هو باقة متفرقة من القصيد، كانت متناثرة في محطات الذاكرة وبين دفاتر الأماني والأيام، بعضها مر عليه سنوات...  Read More >>

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond: Volume 2: Islamic Philosophy

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond: Volume 2: Islamic...

Author: Hans Daiber
ISBN: 9789004441781
Format: Hardback
$390.72

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber's scattered...  Read More >>

Al-Rāzī

Al-Rāzī

Author: Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, LMU Munich)
ISBN: 9780197555040
Format: Paperback
$62.95

This book introduces readers to Abu Bakr al-Razi (known in Latin as Rhazes), one of the most innovative and divisive...  Read More >>

Al-Rāzī

Al-Rāzī

Author: Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, LMU Munich)
ISBN: 9780197555033
Format: Hardback
$275.00

This book introduces readers to Abu Bakr al-Razi (known in Latin as Rhazes), one of the most innovative and divisive...  Read More >>

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond: Volume I: Graeco-Syriaca and Arabica

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond: Volume I: Graeco-Syriaca...

Author: Hans Daiber
ISBN: 9789004441750
Format: Hardback
$390.72

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered...  Read More >>

Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹: A New Edition, English Translation and Commentary of the Kitāb al-Madḫal of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ

Avicenna, ›The Healing, Logic: Isagoge‹: A New Edition,...

Author: Avicenna ,  Silvia Di Vincenzo
ISBN: 9783110726688
Format: Hardback
$240.15

The Kitāb al-Madḫal (""Book of the Isagoge"") is crucial for anyone who aims to fully understand Avicenna's (d....  Read More >>

Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Science, Rationalism, and Religion

Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Science, Rationalism,...

Author: T. M. Rudavsky (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780198866947
Format: Paperback
$54.95

T. M. Rudavsky tells the story of the development of Jewish philosophy from the 10th century to Spinoza in the 17th,...  Read More >>

Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam

Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam

Author: Patrycja Sasnal (Polish Institute of International Affairs, Poland)
ISBN: 9780367787905
Format: Paperback
$48.99

The book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical...  Read More >>

Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric

Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits...

Author: Michael Bernard-Donals (Nancy Hoefs Professor of English, University of Wisconsin - Madison) ,  Kyle Jensen (Professor of English, Arizona State Univeristy)
ISBN: 9780271089577
Format: Hardback
$238.00

A collection of essays examining the extent to which rhetoric’s relation to the sacred is one of ineffability and...  Read More >>

On Life, Death, and Languages: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 29-31

On Life, Death, and Languages: An Arabic Critical Edition...

Author: Eric Ormsby (Professor Emeritus / Senior Research Associate, Professor Emeritus / Senior Research Associate, Free University of Berlin / Institute of Ismaili Studies)
ISBN: 9780198858140
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The epistles in this volume deal with life and death, pleasure and pain, and the diversity of languages. Written...  Read More >>

Models of Desire in Graeco-Arabic Philosophy: From Plotinus to Ibn Ṭufayl

Models of Desire in Graeco-Arabic Philosophy: From Plotinus...

Author: Bethany Somma
ISBN: 9789004460836
Format: Hardback
$425.04

In this study, Bethany Somma argues for a dichotomous interpretation of human desire developed by late ancient Greek...  Read More >>

Subject, Definition, Activity: Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul

Subject, Definition, Activity: Framing Avicenna's Science...

Author: Tommaso Alpina
ISBN: 9783110706550
Format: Hardback
$222.99

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the reception and reworking of the Peripatetic theory of the soul...  Read More >>

The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua

The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua

Author: Yael Halevi-Wise (Associate Professor & Chair of Jewish Studies, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780271087856
Format: Hardback
$217.00

Explores the layers of signification that A. B. Yehoshua constructs in his fiction to draw readers into a critical...  Read More >>

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