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Islamic Philosophy

Averroes: Tahafut al Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence)
translated by Simon van den Bergh
Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. The Tahafut al-Tahafut, written not long after 1180, is his major work and the one in which his original philosophical doctrine is to be found. It takes the form of a ...
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Averroes: On the harmony of religion and philosophy
translated by George Hourani
In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific reasoning. Apparent conflicts between the teachings of Scripture and philosophy can be reconciled by allegorical interpretations of Scripture, though such ...
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Al-Farabis Philosophical Lexicon
edited and translated by Ilai Alon and Shukri Abed
Al-Farabi (d. 950 AD), was perhaps the most original and influential of all Muslim philosophers of the Middle Ages. His intellectual activity spanned over areas as different as music, medicine, political theory, linguistics, logic, metaphysics, religion ...
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Abu Deeb,
by K. Abu Deeb Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani has long been considered the most important of all Arab literary theorists and critics up to the present century. In this, the first comprehensive study of the 11th century scholar, Kamal Abu Deeb places his theory ...
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Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings
edited by Muhammad Ali Khalidi
This anthology of writings aims to demonstrate to students that Islamic philosophy played a vital role in the rejuvenation of western philosophy as a whole. Khalidi has chosen extracts from four key texts, selected for being both representative and ...
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The Life, Personality and Writngs of al-Junayd
edited by Ali Hassan Abdel-Kader
Al-Junayd (d. 910) was one of the most significant figures of the formative period of Islamic mystical thought and practice in the third to ninth centuries. This volume contains an account of his life, personality and writings; his doctrine; and both ...
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Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times
Fromherz, Allen J.
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Censure of Speculative Theology (Ibn Qudama)

Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn 'Aqil (d. ...
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Al-Maturidi und die Sunnitische Theologie in Samarkand
Rudolph, Ulrich
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Anthology of Philosophy in Persia: Vol.I
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
The first of four volumes which aims to provide the West with a comprehensive anthology of Persian philosophy, influential to both the ancient and Islamic worlds, from the time of Zoroaster until the 19th century. This volume covers the mid-late 2nd ...
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