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.
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 ...
Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam: An Aesthetic Reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn
1st Edition
By Giovanna Lelli
January 09, 2023
This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), a text that has been studied up to the present as a work on historiography. It argues that the Muqaddima is also a comprehensive treatise on classical Arab-Islamic culture and provides a picture of classical ...
Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-'Arabi
1st Edition
By Mukhtar H. Ali
January 09, 2023
Analyzing the intersection between Sufism and philosophy, this volume is a sweeping examination of the mystical philosophy of Muḥyī-l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 637/1240), one of the most influential and original thinkers of the Islamic world. This book systematically covers Ibn al-ʿArabī’s ontology, ...
The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad: From Shared Historical Memory to Peaceful Co-existence
1st Edition
By Ibrahim Mohamed Zein, Ahmed El-Wakil
December 30, 2022
Through analysis of the Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad, which pledge protection to diverse faith communities, this book makes a profoundly important contribution to research on early Islam by determining the Covenants’ historicity and textual accuracy. The authors focus on the Prophet Muḥammad’...
The Political Philosophy of Mullā Ṣadrā
1st Edition
By Seyyed Khalil Toussi
September 30, 2021
Providing a comprehensive and widely accessible investigation into Mullā Ṣadrā’s works, this book establishes his political philosophy and instigates a dialogue on the relevance of Ṣadrā’s philosophy to present day challenges. Investigating Ṣadrā’s primary sources, the book reveals that his ...
Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy
1st Edition
By Sari Nusseibeh
August 14, 2020
This book deals with the philosophy of Ibn Sina - Avicenna as he was known in the Latin West- a Persian Muslim who lived in the eleventh century, considered one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy. Although much has been written about Avicenna, and especially about his major ...
Becoming a Genuine Muslim: Kierkegaard and Muhammad Iqbal
1st Edition
By Sevcan Ozturk
August 14, 2020
Despite the apparent lack of any cultural and religious connection between Kierkegaard and Iqbal, their philosophical and religious concerns and their methods of dealing with these concerns show certain parallels. This book provides a Kierkegaardian reading of Muhammad Iqbal’s idea of becoming a ...
Al-Ghazali and the Divine
1st Edition
By Massimo Campanini
June 30, 2020
This book examines the philosophy of al-Ghazali, analysing his conception of God within Islamic theology. Seeking to contribute to the greater understanding of Muslim thought, it analyses his ‘orthodox’ theory, based on the notion that the spiritual struggle (jihad) and philosophical enquiry are ...
The Philosophy of Religion in Post-Revolutionary Iran: The Epistemological Turn in Islamic Reform Discourse
1st Edition
By Heydar Shadi
June 30, 2020
This book explores the intellectual discourse in post-revolutionary Iran. It focuses on Abdolkarim Soroush, a leading Muslim liberal thinker, whose theory of religion is regarded as highly relevant to the current theological and intellectual dynamics in the Islamic world.The Philosophy of Religion ...