Islamic Philosophy - Thematic Sources

General Reference Works and Collections

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings. Cambridge University Press.

Philosophy in the Islamic World. Oxford University Press.

Existence / Being

Izutsu, T. (1971). "The Concept and Reality of Existence." Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies.

McGinnis, J. (2010). "Avicenna." Oxford University Press. (Specifically chapters on essence and existence)

Morewedge, P. (1973). "The Metaphysica of Avicenna (Ibn Sina)." Routledge & Kegan Paul. 

Adamson, P. (2013). "The Arabic Plotinus: A Philosophical Study of the Theology of Aristotle." Duckworth.

Motion

McGinnis, J. (2010). "Avicenna's Natural Philosophy: A Translation of the Physics of the Kitab al-Shifa." Brigham Young University Press.

Mulla Sadra. (2008). "The Elucidation of Substantial Motion" (Trans. M. H. Faghfoory). ICAS Press.

Sajjad, R. (2015). "Time and Motion in Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy." Journal of Islamic Philosophy, 11, 45-68.

Akbarian, R. (2005). "Mulla Sadra and the Theory of Trans-substantial Motion." ICAS Press. 

Psychology

Black, D. L. (1993). "Estimation (Wahm) in Avicenna: The Logical and Psychological Dimensions." Dialogue, 32(2), 219-258.

Hasse, D. N. (2000). "Avicenna's De Anima in the Latin West." Warburg Institute.

Arabicand Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind - Stanford

Epistemology

Kaukua, J. (2014). "Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy: Avicenna and Beyond." Cambridge University Press.

Haeri, M. (1992). "The Elements of Islamic Metaphysics." ICAS Press. (Focus on al-'ilm al-huduri or presential knowledge)

McGinnis, J. (2007). "Ibn Sina’s Argument for the Self-Awareness of the Soul." Philosophical Topics, 35(1/2), 77-96.

Necessary Being

Davidson, H. A. (1987). "Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy." Oxford University Press. 

Mayer, T. (2001). "Ibn Sina’s Burhan al-Siddiqin." Journal of Islamic Studies, 12(1), 18-39. 

Rizvi, S. H. (2009). "Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics: Modulation of Being." Routledge. 

Causality

Adamson, P. (2007). "Ibn Sina and the Transmission of Greek Philosophy." In The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 

Dutton, B. (2001). "Avicenna and the Argument for Divine Causality." Journal of the History of Philosophy, 39(4), 481-502. 

Kukkonen, T. (2000). "Possible Worlds in the Twelfth Century: The Proof of the Occasionalists." Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 10(1), 47-75.

Unity and Plurality

Corbin, H. (1971). "The Concept of Comparative Philosophy." (On the interplay between wahdat al-wujud and tashkik al-wujud). 

Morris, J. W. (1981). "The Wisdom of the Throne: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra." Princeton University Press. 

Ethics

The Virtuous City. Oxford University Press.

Selected Aphorisms: Fuṣūl al-Madanī. Cambridge University Press.

Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq (The Refinement of Character). Great Books of the Islamic World.

Politics

Alireza Omid Bakhsh, 2013, The Virtuous City: The Iranian and Islamic Heritage of Utopianism. The Pennsylvania State University

AL-FĀRĀBI, Fuṣūl al-madani “Aphorisms of the Statesman.” Ed. with an English translation, introduction, and notes by D. M. DUNLOP. — Cambridge, University Press 1961. 208 pp

Muhsin S. Mahdi, 2001, Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy. The University of Chicago Press

al-Farabi’sPhilosophy of Society and Religion - Stanford