Islamic Philosophy
How to be at home everywhere
In his book «The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics,» delivered as a lecture course in 1929-30, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger ...
Ibn Khaldun has a Message for us
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhmmad Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), one of the greatest minds of the Islamic intellectual tradition and best known ...
The mental and spiritual fragmentation of the Muslim world
The Muslim world suffers from disunity, poverty and bad governance. Political fragmentation runs deep across what the classical scholars called ...
To be in the world but not of it
One of the criticisms directed at Islam in the Western religious and Orientalist circles is that Islam is too worldly ...
‘Hayy ibn Yaqdhan’ and the European Enlightenment
Ibn Tufayl (1116 to 1185), one of the luminaries of Andalusian Islam, is best known for his philosophical tale “Hayy ...
Transcending One’s Era Requires Foresight
In the 1930s, when the number and circulation of newspapers began to increase, British philosopher Bertrand Russell warned that forests ...
On the Science of the Soul – A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, PsyDCarmel Valley, California The monopolistic tendency of modern science in asserting itself as the exclusiveinterpreter of the ...
Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy
This study looks at how the seventeenth-century philosopher Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi, known as Mulla Sadra, attempted to reconcile the three ...
The Nature of Man
The Islamic conception of man is summarized in the doctrine of al-insān al-kāmil, the universal or perfect man, a doctrine ...
