Philosophia Islamica

General and introductory texts:

• History of Muslim Philosophy. Ed. M. M. Sharif. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1963. An overview of Muslim philosophy in English.
• Introduction of Greek Philosophy in the Muslim World (from JIP 1, by M. Hozien)
• Articles by Seyyed Hossein Nasr:
  • The Meaning and Concept of Philosophy in Islam
  • The Qur'an and Hadith as Source and Inspiration of Islamic Philosophy
• Islamic Philosophy. M. Saeed Sheikh. This book has been published under four different titles; this is the original (in pdf). It is a very brief introduction to main areas of the discipline.
• al-Falsafa al-ʿarabiyya: mushkalat wa-l-ḥulūl [Arabic philosophy: problems and solutions]. Ali Bomelhem (Arabic pdf). 
• al-Tafkīr al-falsafī al-Islāmī [Islamic philosophical thought]. S. Dunya (Arabic pdf). 
• Islamic Theology and Philosophy. M. W. Watt (pdf).  
• History of Islamic Philosophy. Majid Fahkry (partial e-text).
• Overviews of Islamic philosophy:
  • From Routledge:
    • History of Islamic Philosophy. O. Leaman and S. H. Nasr. 2 vols. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Table of contents (pdf). 
    • A listing of Islamic philosophy articles from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 
    • Just what is Islamic Philosophy. O. Leaman (link).
  • Transcript: From Egyptian TV. Some articles are on Muslim philosophers.
  • A listing of Islamic philosophy articles from the Encyclopedia of Islam (EI).
  • A listing of Islamic philosophy articles from McMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Metaphysics in Islamic Philosophy. F. Shehadi (pdf). 
• Durant, Story of Civilization, article on Islamic Philosophy (Arabic e-text in word). 
• The History of Philosophy in Islam. T. J. De Bore. Trans. Edward R. Jones. London: Luzac and Co., 1903. Also available in pdf.
• Greek into Arabic. R. Walzer. A collection of articles on the flow of Greek philosophy into Arabic and its practitioners (pdf).
• The Philosophy of the Kalam. Harry A. Wolfson (pdf). 
• The Philosophical Forum, 1972 issue on Islamic Philosophy (pdf). 
• Transcendent Philosophy: E-Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism (link).
• Bibliography:
  • Collected scholarly volumes in Islamic philosophy (link). 
  • A bibliography of books on Islam, including Islamic philosophy.
  • Prof. Therese-Anne Druart's Brief Bibliographical Guide for Islamic Philosophy and Theology:
    from: 2007 - 2008 |from: 2006 - 2007 |from: 2004 - 2006 |from: 2002 - 2004 |from: 1998 - 2002
• Adventures in Philosophy: A Brief History of Islamic Philosophy. From the Radical Academy (link)

Current research and events:

• Announce upcoming Islamic philosophy events—or events that you know about. Send us a line. 

Upcoming Event: 

• Graeco-Arabic Rationalism in Islamic Traditionalism: The Post-Classical Period (ca. 1200-1900) (link)
• Aspects of al-Ghazali's Influence on Modern and Contemporary Islam, A Workshop at Yale University, December 9–10, 2011 - (link)

Projects: 

• New Series: Prof. Yahya Michot, Ibn Taymiyya "Spiritual Texts" in French. Announcement. First installment.
• Prof. Richard Taylor, Study of the Influence of Philosophers of the Arabic / Islamic Tradition and their Influence on Thomas Aquinas (link).

Past events: 

• Prof. Michael Marmura passed away (September 17, 2009).
• In the Age of Averroes: Arabic Thought at the End of the Classical Period. An international conference to be held at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London, February 14-16, 2008. Announcement
• "The Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Explorations in the Abrahamic Traditions" February 28 - March 2, 2007 (Conference website).

Ongoing events: 

• Middle East Studies Association (MESA), announcement calendar (link).
• American Academy of Religion, meeting calendar (link).
• American Philosophical Association (APA), announcement calendar (link).

New publications: 

• The Journal of Islamic Philosophy, volume 6 is now available.
• The Story of Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Ṭufayl, Ibn al-ʿArabī, and others on the Limit between Naturalism adn Traditionalism. Salman H. Bashier. Albany, NY: SUNY, 2011.
• Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy. Mohammad Azadpur. Albany, NY: SUNY, 2011.
• Avicenna's Physics of the Healing. Trans. Jon McGinnis. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2010. 2 Volumes
• Avicenna, Jon McGinnis, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780195331486.
• Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics: Modulation of being, Sajjad H. Rizvi, London: Routledge, 2009, ISBN: 9780415490733.
• Avicenna and His Legacy, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Turnhout: Berpols, 2009, ISBN: 9782503527536.
• The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology. Ed. Timothy Winter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780521785495.
• Sufism and Theology. Ed. Ayman Shihadeh. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780748626052.
• The Essential Ideas of Islamic Philosophy: A Brief Survey. Mashhad al-Allaf. Mellen Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-7734-5848-4, HC, 345 pp.
• Probing in Islamic Philosophy, Studies in the Philosophies of Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and Other Major Muslim Thinkers. Michael E. Marmura. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 1586842544.
• The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. Ayman Shihadeh. Leiden: Brill, 2006. ISBN: 9004149910.
• Al-Kindi. P. Adamson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 0195181433.
• Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy. Ed. Oliver Leaman. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006. ISBN: 1843711486.
• God and Humans in Islamic Thought: 'Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali. Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0415400287.
• Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present. S. H. Nasr. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006.
• Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing. Trans. M. Marmura. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0934893772.
• Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam. Richard M. Frank. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2005. ISBN: 0860789772.
• The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Ed. Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0 521 52069 X.
• Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy). Ed. Muhammad Ali Khalidi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0521529638. 236 pages.
• An Introduction to Islamic Philosophy. (in Italian), Massimo Campanini. Trans. Caroline Higgitt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780748626083.
• Ibn Taymiyya. Fetwa de Mardin (See pdf for Table des matières). Un ouvrage de XII & 176p. (13X19) ISBN: 2841612554 (12€) La Librairie de l'Orient (El-Bouraq éditions). 2005. (French)
• Ibn Taymiyya. Un Dieu Hésitant? (See pdf for Table des matières). Un ouvrage de VI & 37p. (14X21) ISBN: 2841612554 (4€) La Librairie de l'Orient (El-Bouraq éditions). 2005 (French)
• Let us know of your publications. Contact us.

New Dissertations: 

• Announce your completed dissertation or theses here, e-mail us with the details.
• Brown, Keven. Time, Perpetuity, and Eternity: Mir Damad's Theory of Perpetual Creation and the Trifold Division of Existence: An Analysis of Kitab al-Qabasat: The Book of Blazing Brands. (UCLA 2006). (link)

New Online: 

• A list of books that are available online in PDF format.
• al-Moqabast of Abu Hayan al-Tawhidi. Ed. H. Sanduby. Kuwait. 2nd imp. 1992 (pdf).
• Sharh al-usul al-khamsa. Qadi Abd al-Jabar. Ed. A. K. Othman. Cairo. 3rd imp. 1996 (pdf).
• The Foundation: www.al-furqan.com and its library: http://aihf.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/webcat. A great resource on all things relating to Islamic manuscripts.

The Philosophers:

Those who shaped Islamic Philosophy into something quite unique. (In chronological order)

• The Translator's Page. (Those who brought Greek thought into Arabic).
  • Philosophy Entry from al-Nadim's Fahrist (English E-text) Pdf. 
• al-Kindi Site (d. 866) our site dedicated to him.
• Al-Farabi Site  (870-950) 
  • Kitab al-Huruf (Book of letters) Arabic html E-text. Also in word file format.
  • al-tahsil Arabic word file. 
  • The Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. English E-text PDF format. 
  • and much more texts see our Farabi pages!
• Ibn Sina Site (Avicenna) (980-1037) and the Ibn Sina Gallery. (updated!)
• Ibn Hazm (994-1063).
  • Al-fasl fil al-Milal wal-Nihal (on Sects)
  • On Mannerism and Behavior. (on Ethics), English translation and in Arabic word. 
  • The Dove's Necklace. (on love) is here.
• Al-Ghazali Site (1058-1111).
• Ibn Bajja (d. 1139)
  • fil mutahrik (on the moving) Arabic-text (PDF) - Turkoman translation (PDF) - courtesy of Prof. Tahir asir
• Shahrastani (1087-1153):  Nihyat al-qadam fi Ilm al-Kalam (Islamic Theology) (Arabic and English E-text in pdf format). Arabic text only 
• Ibn Tufayl (1110-1185) (PDF) 
  • Hayy bani Yaqzan (Living son of awake) (pdf) -(unedited rtf). 
• Ibn Rushd Site (Averroes) (1126-1198).
• Fakhraddin al-Razi (1149-1209) (PDF) 
  • Book on Ethics an English translation of Kitab al-nafs wa'l-ruh wa sharh quwahuma (pdf). 
• Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240)  (Bio, PDF) (Ibn 'Arabi Society) (Anqa Publishing)
• Ibn Taymiyah. (1263-1328) Finally our Site on the man.
• Ibn Kummunah, one of his works: (PDF)
• Ibn Khaldun's Life and works. (1332-1406). a third version now on the Muslim Hertiage website
  • Autobiography (at-Tarif) In Arabic (word).
  • al-Muqadimah (Prolegomena)
    • In Arabic ed. by K. Shahada, Beirut: 2001, (pdf).
    • English Translation (E-text)
  • Ibn Khaldun: His Life and Works by M. A. Enan (pdf) 
  • Ibn Khaldun: a short Bio
  • History of Muslim Philosophy Bio. (PDF)
• Mulla Sadra. (1571-1640) Bio from History of Muslim Philosophy.   (Website - link) A special issue of JIP coming soon.
• Muhammad Iqbal Site (1877 -1938)
• More Modern Philosophers. In the 19th and 20th Century. A (incomplete) Who's Who short list.
  • Abdel-Rahman Badawi (1917- 2002) Review of life and works. (link)
    • Translation of Aritstotle's Poetica in Arabic. PDF file. 
  • Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr: (1935-1980) Our Philosophy. Trans. by S. Inati. (E-text)
  • Murtada Mutahhari: Introduction to Ilm al-Kalam. (E-text)
  • Syed Hossein Nasr: (1933-) Islam and Modern Science. (E-text)
  • Dr. Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri: The West and Islam: Clash points and Dialogues (E-text)
  • Professor Yahya Michot
  (website)
  • Professor Ibrahim Kalin
  • Professor M. Basil Altaie (website)
  • Professor Mashhad Al-Allaf (website)

Featured articles:

• a New Series by Prof. Michot of Ibn Taymiyah's Textes spirituels: NS 12: a new text: "True Salfism and the New Mamaluks" (pdf) for the rest of the series click here
• Erdem, Engin. "Craig And His Concept of Eternity: A Critique From the Standpoint of Kalam" (word)
• Rustom, Mohammed. "Equilibrium and Realization: William Chittick on Self and Cosmos" The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 25:3 (2008) 52-60 (pdf) Also available in a Persian Translation: "Ta'adul va tahqiq: Vilyam Chitik dar bab-i nafs va jahan." Trans. Sayeh Meisami. Kitab-i mah-i din 145 (1388 Sh/2009): 82-88. (pdf)
• Rustom, Mohammed. "Psychology, Eschatology, and Imagination In Mulla Sadra Shirazi’s Commentary on the Hadith of Awakening" Islam & Science, 5:1(2007) 9-22 (pdf)
• Khalil, Atif. "Is an Intra-Islamic Theological Ecumenism Possible? A Response to Sherman Jackson" The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 22:4 (2005) 84-95 (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Misled and Misleading... Yet Central in their Influence: Ibn Taymiyya's Views on the Ikhwan al-Safa'," pp. 139-179. In The Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Rasa'il: An Introduction, edited by Nader El-Bizri. Oxford University Press, 2008. (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Al-Farabi and His Influence on the Early Avicenna: The Evidence from the Kitab al-Mabda' wa-l'-Ma'ad," pp. 327-340. In Proceedings of the International al-Farabi Symposium, Ankara, October 7-8, 2004. Ankara, 2005. (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Cultes, Magie et Intellection: L'homme et sa Corporéité Selon Avicenne," Vol. 1, pp. 220-233. In L'homme et son Universe au Moyen Age, edited by Christian Wenin. Louvain-la-Neuve, 1986. (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Des-alteration et epiphanie: une lecture avicennienne de la danse mevlevie," pp. 25-33. In Milli Mevlana Kongresi. Konya, 1992. (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Une Nouvelle Oeuvre du Jeune Avicenne: Note complementaire a propos du ms. Huseyin Celebi 1194 de Brousse." Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 34 (1992), 138-154. (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Un Important Recueil Avicennien du VIIe / XIIIe S.: La Majmu'a Huseyin Celebi 1194 de Brousse." Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 33 (1991), 121-129. (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Ibn Taymiyya's Commentary on the Creed of al-Hallaj," pp. 123-136. In Sufism and Theology, edited by Ayman Shihadeh. Edinburgh University Press, 2007. (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Vanites intellectuelles...l'impasse des rationalismes selon le rejet de la contradiction d'ibn Taymiyyah," Oriente Moderno 3 (2000), 597-617. (pdf)  
• Michot, Y. “A Mamluk Theologian’s Commentary on Avicenna’s Risala Adhawiyya: Being a Translation of a Part of the Dar' al-ta'rud of Ibn Taymiyya with Introduction, Annotation, and Appendices” Part I,  Journal of Islamic Studies, 2003 14:2 pp.149-203 and Part II , Journal of Islamic Studies, 2003 14:3 pp. 309-363 (PDF).
• Michot, Y. "Le Riz Trop Cuit Du Kirmânî: Présentation, Éditon Traduction et Lexique de L'épître d'Avicenne Contestant L'accusation d'avoir Pastiché Le Coran", in F. Dalemans, et. al. Mélanges Offerts À Hossam Elkhadem par ses Amis et ses Éléves, Bruxelles, 2007. pp. 81-129. (PDF)
• Michot, Y. "Al-Nukat wa-l-faw`id: An Important Summa of Avicenian Falsafa", in Peter Adamson, ed., Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception, Warburg Institue, London 2007, pp. 90-123. (pdf)
• Taylor, Richard C. "The Agent Intellect as 'form for us' and Averroes's Critique of al-Fârâbî" Topicos (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City) 29 (2005) 29-51. Reprint in Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 5 (2005)18-32 (pdf)
• Michot, Y. "Ibn Taymiyya on Astrology Annotated Translation of Three Fatwas", Journal of Islamic Studies 11:2 (2000) pp. 147-208. (pdf)
• Michot, J, "Les Sciences Physiques et métaphysiques selon la risalah fi aqsam al-`ulum D'Avicenne Essai De Traduction Critique", Bulletin De Philosophie Médiévale 22, 1980 pp. 62-73 (pdf)
• M. B. Altaie. Daqiq al-Kalam: Islamic Approach to Natural Philosophy,  PDF
• “Three Views of Science in the Islamic World”, God, Life and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives, eds. Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal, Syed Nomanul Haq, (Ashgate, 2002), pp. 43-75.
• “The Sacred versus the Secular: Nasr on Science”, Library of Living Philosophers: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ed. L. E. Hahn, R. E. Auxier and L. W. Stone (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2001), pp. 445-462.
• A comment of Abul Hassan Al-Âsh'ari’s argument proving that existentia is essentia. (in arabic) word. Khayrallah, Lotfi.
• Islamic Political Philosophy Book (Arabic Text): Tuhafat al-turk fima yajb an ya'mal fil muluk. (ed. Abdel Karim M. al-Hamdawy. (zipped word file) 2 Megs of 11. megs book.
• Averroes' Critique of Kalam Atomism by M. Altaie (Arabic PDF E-text) Arabic Word. (note there is an abstract in English on page 2).
• Reason, Physicalism, and Faith By. Prof. Crow.  E-text English in word format.
• On the expansion of the universe: Ghazali versus Ibn Rushd. by M. Altaie (Arabic PDF E-text - 328K)  New Article. Also in Arabic word format. 
• The degeneration of the Sun: Galen versus Ghazali with the defense of Ibn Rushd. by M. Altaie (Arabic E-text - 328K)  New Article. Also in Arabic word format. 
• The explanation of the refutations of al-Ghazali against the first proof of the philosophers which confirms the eternity of the world. (in arabic) word. Khayrallah, Lotfi.
• Islamic Philosophical Arguments for the Existence of God. M. Fahkry. (E-text)
• Al-Ghazali's Crisis: a Re-evaluation of writings on his crisis. M. Hozien. (E-text) 
• Primer on Islam and the Problems of Causation, Induction and Skepticism.  M. Aftab. (E-text) 
• The Scientific value of dakik al-Kalam. M. Altaie (E-text- pdf only-783Kb)
• Rationality in Islamic Philosophy. M. Fahkry. (E-text- pdf) 
• Philosophical Terminology in Arabic and Persian. S. Afnan (E-text- pdf) 
• From the Net:
  • Subject-Object Relation in Mullâ Sadrâ’s Theory of Knowledge. A. Mesbah (Link)
  • Avicennisme et averroïsme dans la poétique et la rhétorique islamiques médiévales: La tradition persane. G. Lelli (French - Link)
  • The Neoplatonist Roots of Sufi Philosophy. K. Godelek
  • Casuality and Islamic Thought by A. Smirnov (e-text) also in Russian (link).
  • Truth and Islamic Thought by A. Smirnov (e-text) also in Russian (link).
  • Ontological Argument revisited by Ü. Dericioglu (e-text). 
  Lost on the Net:
  • Al-Ghazali Causality & Knowledge. By P. Adamson. (E-text or word: 73Kb) Soon to be replaced by a new article Inshallah! right Peter!
  •  Knowledge and Immortality in Spinoza and Mulla Sadra. By: C. Wilson. (E-text or word: 54Kb)
  • The Uncanonical Dante: The Divine Comedy And Islamic Philosophy. P. Cantor. (E-text or word: 67Kb)
  • God Physics: From Hawkings to Avicenna. By: W. Carroll (e-text only in word: 82Kb)

Book Reviews:

• Michel Chodkiewicz, An Ocean without Shore: Ibn Arabi, the Book and the Law. Trans. David Streight. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993. 184 pp. Reviewed by M. Rustom. PDF.
• Paul Walker. Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani : Ismaili Thought in the Age of al-Hakim. I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. London, 1999. Hbk, xi-xiv + 168 pp. Reviewed by M. Rustom. PDF.

Courses:

This is a listing of courses offered by Universities and educational institutes NOT affiliated in anyway with Islamic Philosophy online. Our listing here is not an endorsement by an acknowledgement:

• Prof. Mashhad Al-Allaf (Course work)
• Prof. Ibrahim Kalin's Islamic Philosophy and Theology: An introduction to key issues and figures.
• Prof. Taylor's course work: (link)
  • Averroes Seminar (Spring 2007):(link)
  • Medieval Islamic Philosophy (Fall 2005) (link)
• Graduate Seminar on Arabic Philosophy. University of London. Prof. P. Adamson.
• McGill University's Islamic Philosophy and thought. (link)
• If your course is not listed here let us know. (contact us)

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• Toronto Arabic Philosophy Reading Circle. (click here)

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