Showing posts with label Islamic Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islamic Philosophy. Show all posts

Saturday, July 25, 2026

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.

Epistemology

Ibrahim Kalin (2010) Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra on Existence, Intellect, and Intuition. Oxford University Press 

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


Monday, October 26, 2020

Islamic Philosophy - al-Ghazali

Webpages

ghazali.org (comprehensive resource website) 

al-Ghazali in Stanford

al-Ghazali in Britannica

al-Ghazali in MuslimPhilosophy.com

Books

The Way to the Revival of the Muslim Ummah Author(s): Abdel Hamid H. El-Ghazali

Al- Ghazali's Philosophical Theology Author(s): Frank Griffel

Tahafut Al-Falasifah [ Incoherence of the Philosophers ] Author(s): Al-Ghazali, Sabih Ahmad Kamali

God and Humans in Islamic Thought: Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East) Author(s): Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth

The Incoherence of the Philosophers Author(s): Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

On the Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God (Ghazali Series) Author(s): Abu Hamid Muhammad Ghazali

Ghazali's Unique Unknowable God Author(s): F. Shehadi

Creation and the Cosmic System: Al-Ghazali and Avicenna Author(s): Richard M. Frank

From al-Ghazali to al-Razi: 6th 12th Century Developments in Muslim Philosophical Theology Author(s): Ayman Shihadeh

Ghazali (Makers Of The Muslim World) Author(s): Eric Ormsby

Al-Ghazālī and the Ashʽarite School Author(s): Richard M. Frank

Muslim intellectual : a study of al-Ghazali Author(s): W Montgomery Watt

Islam and Rationality. The Impact of al-Ghazālī Author(s): Georges Tamer (ed.)

Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief" Author(s): Aladdin M. Yaqub

Islam and Rationality. The Impact of al-Ghazālī. Papers collected on his 900th Anniversary Author(s): Frank Griffel (ed.)

Ghazali's Politics in Context Author(s): Yazeed Said

Al-Ghazali, Averroes and the Interpretation of the Qur’an: Common Sense and Philosophy in Islam Author(s): Avital Wohlman

The first Islamic reviver : Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and his Revival of the religious sciences Author(s): Kenneth Garden

Abstinence In Islam Author(s): Al-Ghazali Abu Hamid.

Politics of the Islamic Tradition: The Thought of Muhammad Al-Ghazali Author(s): Mohammed Moussa

INVERTING THE VOID: A COMPARISON OF AL-GHAZĀLĪ AND DESCARTES Author(s): Kamal-Edin Khashoggi

A Treasury of Ghazali Author(s): Imam al-Ghazali

The Jewels of the Quran Author(s): Imam Muhammad al-Ghazali

Ghazali: the Revival of Islam Author(s): Ghazzālī;Ormsby, Eric