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This definitive study of an important Sufi work by the "Greatest Shayk" of Islamic mysticism presents a provocative new perspective on the fundamental question of the nature and authority of individual sainthood in organized, prophetic religion.
€166.00$215.00
This volume examines the theological doctrine of al-Māturīdī (d.944 CE) by describing its principal characteristics and situating it within the history of Sunnī kalām.
€167.00$216.00
This publication of al-Kindī's metaphysical and cosmological writings provides a new critical edition and a new French translation of six books including the First Philosophy. In this volume, the reader will find a rigorous edition and translation of the first contributions in Islamic philosophy.
€380.00$492.00
This publication of al-Kindī's Optics and Catoptrics provides editio princeps and the first translation of three books including the Rectification of Euclid's Optics hitherto unknown. In this book, the reader will find genuine and new information about Greek and Arabic optics and catoptics.
€155.00$201.00
This volume contains 17 articles on various aspects of Islamic thought in the Middle East and in Southeast Asia. The first 9 articles concentrate especially on the Qur’ān and its exegesis, Kalām and Sufism; the second 8 articles deal with Javanese Islam, and with Islam and modernity in Southeast ...
€138.00$179.00
This collection of papers focusses on the literary, the text-linguistic, the intertextual, and the receptional aspects of the Qur’anic text. Using modern methodology can open the way towards a more adequate hermeneutical approach to the Qur’an.
€92.00$119.00
This edition and annotated translation of al-Qāsim's Kitāb al-mustarshid includes a discussion of anthropomorphism and interpretation of the Qur’ān in the theology of the Zaidite imam al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm (785-860 A.D.). Al-Qāsim's methods of interpretation are put forth and analyzed in light of ...
€203.00$263.00
This important and comprehensive work of 18th-century Islamic religious thought written in Arabic by a pre-eminent South Asian scholar provides an extensive and detailed picture of Muslim theology and interpretive strategies on the eve of the modern period.
€140.00$181.00
This collection of interdisciplinary essays on a unique work by a physician and political figure in 12th-century Spain and North Africa casts important light on the social and intellectual history of the period and breaks new ground in the critical assessment of medieval Arabic literary works.
€182.00$236.00
This study provides a detailed description of ways in which Muslim astronomers handled the Greek astronomical legacy, reassessed its cultural and philosophical implications in light of their religiously-inspired world view, and proposed to modify it.