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Nasir Khusraw, the ruby of Badakhshan: a portrait of the Persian poet, traveller and philosopher
This is the first comprehensive study in English of the life of Nasir Khusraw, one of the foremost poets of the Persian language and a major Ismaili thinker and writer. Celebrated for a poetry that comines art with philosophy, trusted for the details…
The philosophy of illumination: Ḥikmat al-ishrāq : a new critical edition of the text of Ḥikmat al-ishrāq
Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi was born around 1154, probably in northwestern Iran. Spurred by a dream in which Aristotle appeared to him, he rejected the Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy of his youth and undertook the task of reviving the philosophical…
Averroës and the Enlightenment
One of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages was the Muslim philosopher and jurist Ibn Rushd (1126-1198), known in the West as Averroes. Averroes's emphasis on critical reasoning as a tool for discovering the truth and his attempt to…
Ibn al-ʻArabī's Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship Between God and the World
"This book explores how Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) used the concept of barzakh (the limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term…