Islamic & Arabic philosophy books

1055 books were found.

Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation: A Study of the Graeco-Arabic Gnomologia

Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation: A Study...

Author: Dimitri Gutas
ISBN: 9781940490557
Format: Paperback
$129.00

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Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell

Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell

Author: Alice Sowaal (San Francisco State University) ,  Penny A. Weiss
ISBN: 9780271071251
Format: Paperback
$97.99

A collection of essays on the early modern English writer, proto-feminist, and rhetorician Mary Astell. Includes...  Read More >>

Thinkers of the East

Thinkers of the East

Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 9781784790608
Format: Paperback
$28.44

The book's author, Idries Shah, says 'Without direct experience of such teaching, or at least a direct recording...  Read More >>

The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval...

Author: ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī ,  Luke Yarbrough
ISBN: 9781479889457
Format: Hardback
$86.99

The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between...  Read More >>

Thinkers of the East

Thinkers of the East

Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 9781784790639
Format: Paperback
$28.44

The book's author, Idries Shah, says 'Without direct experience of such teaching, or at least a direct recording...  Read More >>

Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell

Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell

Author: Alice Sowaal (San Francisco State University) ,  Penny A. Weiss
ISBN: 9780271071244
Format: Hardback
$195.00

A collection of essays on the early modern English writer, proto-feminist, and rhetorician Mary Astell. Includes...  Read More >>

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume II: The Naat al-mulk of Pseudo-Mward: Texts, Sources and Authorities

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century...

Author: L. Marlow ,  Louise Marlow
ISBN: 9780748696987
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on the milieu and polity in which it was written...  Read More >>

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century...

Author: L. Marlow ,  Louise Marlow
ISBN: 9780748696901
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on the milieu and polity in which it was written...  Read More >>

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volumes I & II

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century...

Author: L. Marlow ,  Louise Marlow
ISBN: 9780748697564
Format: Hardback
$686.40

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to an early Arabic mirror, the 'Counsel for Kings' of Pseudo-Mawardi, this...  Read More >>

Islam: The Straight Path

Islam: The Straight Path

Author: John L. Esposito (, Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780190632151
Format: Paperback
$189.95

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Politics and Excellence: The Political Philosophy of Alfarabi

Politics and Excellence: The Political Philosophy of...

Author: Miriam Galston
ISBN: 9780691633343
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Widely recognized as one of the most original and profound philosophers that the medieval Islamic world produced,...  Read More >>

Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning

Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning

Author: Rasheed El-Enany
ISBN: 9781138140837
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Philosophies of Islamic Education: Historical Perspectives and Emerging Discourses

Philosophies of Islamic Education: Historical Perspectives...

Author: Mujadad Zaman ,  Nadeem Memon (University of South Australia)
ISBN: 9781138788541
Format: Hardback
$389.00

The study of Islamic education has hitherto remained a tangential inquiry in the broader focus of Islamic Studies....  Read More >>

The Classical Heritage in Islam

The Classical Heritage in Islam

Author: Franz Rosenthal ,  Emile Marmorstein
ISBN: 9781138141797
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Rosenthal demonstrates the significance of the Classical heritage by drawing together the great range of literary...  Read More >>

Destination Mecca

Destination Mecca

Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 9781784790578
Format: Paperback
$28.44

First published in 1957, Destination Mecca was both an ambitious travel book and a work of ethnographic and cultural...  Read More >>

The Elephant in the Dark: Christianity, Islam and the Sufis

The Elephant in the Dark: Christianity, Islam and the...

Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 9781784791025
Format: Paperback
$13.33

Based on Shah's celebrated Geneva University lectures, this book...  Read More >>

The Elephant in the Dark: Christianity, Islam and the Sufi

The Elephant in the Dark: Christianity, Islam and the...

Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 9781784791056
Format: Paperback
$12.91

Based on Shah's celebrated Geneva University lectures, this book...  Read More >>

Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue

Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic...

Author: Konrad Hirschler
ISBN: 9781474408776
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation...  Read More >>

Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought

Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu...

Author: Sarah Stroumsa
ISBN: 9789004315471
Format: Paperback
$190.08

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The Dermis Probe

The Dermis Probe

Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 9781784790486
Format: Paperback
$18.09

The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers. In...  Read More >>

The Dermis Probe

The Dermis Probe

Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 9781784790516
Format: Paperback
$18.09

The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers. In...  Read More >>

Medieval Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Medieval Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Author: John Marenbon (Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199663224
Format: Paperback
$21.95

In this book John Marenbon discusses the extraordinary breadth of medieval philosophy as written by Christians in...  Read More >>

Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism

Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without...

Author: Jeremy Menchik (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781107119147
Format: Hardback
$155.25

This book explains what tolerance means to the leaders of the world's largest Islamic organizations. It is based...  Read More >>

Oriental Magic

Oriental Magic

Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 9781784790424
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Oriental Magic is recognized as a brilliant study of how, what and why people think, in territories extending from...  Read More >>

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