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.
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’...