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.
The Farahi School and Reformist Islam: Hijab, Apostasy, Stoning and the Return of Jesus
1st Edition
By Farhad Shafti
January 28, 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 ...
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
This book examines the discursive and ritual processes through which qibla-rhetoric and qibla-practice fostered a sense of group belonging and marked boundaries between Islam and other religious communities (mainly Christians and Jews). Through four interlocking projects—spanning Islam’s emergence...
Interpreting Ibn ʿArabī: Philosophy, Theology, and Exegesis, in Later Islam
1st Edition
By Arjun Nair
December 12, 2025
Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) is perhaps the most challenging intellectual figure of later Islamic history, being at once highly celebrated and highly vilified. This book explores an interpretive and commentary tradition around his controversial ideas....
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 ...
Miskawayh's Tahḏīb al-aḫlāq: Happiness, Justice and Friendship
1st Edition
By Ufuk Topkara
January 29, 2024
This book engages with the work of Miskawayh, a formative Islamic Philosopher in the 11th century, who is acknowledged as the founder of Islamic Moral Philosophy. Miskawayh’s The Refinement of Character (Tahḏīb al-Aḫlāq) draws from both ancient Greek philosophical tradition and Islamic thought, ...
The Crisis of Muslim Religious Discourse: The Necessary Shift from Plato to Kant
1st Edition
By Lahouari Addi
September 25, 2023
Showing that Muslim societies are facing a crisis that is more cultural than religious, this book focuses on cultural representations through which social life is experienced in the Muslim world. It brings a new theoretical framework to address the secularization process that is underway and the ...
Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the Unknown
1st Edition
By Mohammad Azadpur
June 09, 2023
This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna. This discourse has two main objectives: (1) providing an interpretation of Avicenna’s epistemology that avoids reading ...