Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy
About the Book Series
The Series is devoted to the publication of scholarly books in all areas of Islamic philosophy. We regard the discipline as part of the general philosophical environment and seek to include books on a wide variety of different approaches to Islamic philosophy.
Qur'anic Abrogation After Muhammad: The Eternal Flux
1st Edition
By Javad Fakhkhar Toosi
July 09, 2026
Qur’anic Abrogation after Muhammad: The Eternal Flux presents a bold new interpretive framework for reconciling classical Qur’anic injunctions with the ethical imperatives of the modern world. Challenging the notion of Islamic legal rigidity, this book introduces the paradigm of “Contemporary ...
Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī’s ‘The Key to the Unseen’: A Guide Book to Sufi Metaphysics
1st Edition
By Özgür Koca
May 18, 2026
Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī’s ‘The Key to the Unseen’: A Guide Book to Sufi Metaphysics□ offers the first systematic articulation of Ibn ʿArabī's revolutionary teachings, presenting one of the most significant works of Islamic spirituality and a cornerstone of Sufi metaphysics through the profound synthesis...
The Farahi School and Reformist Islam: Hijab, Apostasy, Stoning and the Return of Jesus
1st Edition
By Farhad Shafti
February 09, 2026
Examining the emergence and development of the Farāhī school of thought and its methodology, this book explores the four case studies of stoning, apostasy, hijab, and the return of Jesus. It demonstrates the reforming Farāhī approach and divergence from traditional Islamic thought, tracing Farāhī ...
A Confluence Between Iqbal and Leibniz: Self and Monad
1st Edition
By M. Shabbir Ahsen
January 26, 2026
A Confluence Between Iqbal and Leibniz: Self and Monad explores the striking metaphysical parallels between two towering thinkers separated by centuries – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Muhammad Iqbal. Bringing these philosophical traditions into dialogue, the book makes a compelling case that both ...
Interpreting Ibn ʿArabī: Philosophy, Theology, and Exegesis in Later Islam
1st Edition
By Arjun Nair
December 29, 2025
Interpreting Ibn ʿArabī: Philosophy, Theology, and Exegesis in Later Islam offers a comprehensive and critical examination of one of Islam’s most enigmatic and influential thinkers. Through close engagement with major controversies surrounding Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas— from the doctrine of the Oneness of...
Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker
1st Edition
By Ari M. Gordon
December 29, 2025
Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker offers a groundbreaking study of how the qibla—Islam’s ritual direction of prayer—served not only as a sacred practice but also as a powerful marker of communal identity in Islam’s formative ...
The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought: Contemplating Allah
1st Edition
Edited
By Mansooreh Khalilizand
July 30, 2025
The debate over Allah’s attribute—the “nature” and the inner articulation of Allah—is one of the focal debates in the intellectual history of Islam. This edited collection aims to highlight and examine some aspects of this debate in their original context, based on the relevant primary literature. ...
Studying Islam in the Arab World: The Rupture Between Religion and the Social Sciences
1st Edition
By Sari Hanafi
June 27, 2025
Addressing the rupture between religious and social sciences in Arab universities, this book provides a critical assessment of the curricula of Shariah and Islamic Studies departments across the Arab World, arguing for increased interdisciplinary dialogue. Based on over 250 interviews with ...
Ghazālī’s Epistemology: A Critical Study of Doubt and Certainty
1st Edition
By Nabil Yasien Mohamed
April 14, 2025
Focusing on Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) – one of the foremost scholars and authorities in the Muslim world who is central to the Islamic intellectual tradition – this book embarks on a study of doubt (shakk) and certainty (yaqīn) in his epistemology. The book looks at Ghazālī’s attitude to ...
Ibn ‘Arabī’s Religious Pluralism: Levels of Inclusivity
1st Edition
By Faris Abdel-hadi
December 20, 2024
This book marks a significant contribution to the debate around Ibn ʿArabī’s religious pluralism, focusing on his multifaceted approach to non-Abrahamic religions. For nearly eight hundred years, the writings and ideas of the great Spanish Sufi master Ibn ʿArabī have shaped Islamic intellectual and...
From the Divine to the Human: Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Muhammad U. Faruque, Mohammed Rustom
November 28, 2024
Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the world today, from COVID-19 and issues in climate change to problems in palliative care and human vulnerability. Rather than walking down well-trodden ...
Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur'anic Theory of Human Existential Function
1st Edition
By Chauki Lazhar
October 08, 2024
This book explores the reasons for the creation of humanity on Earth from the perspective of ancient and contemporary Muslim thinkers, aiming to lay the outlines of a Qurʾanic theory of human existential function. The author proceeds from the assumption that, until now, contemporary Islamic ...