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Muslim philosophy

Abdullah Hindi

Philosophy, from the Greek word philosophia literally meaning “love of wisdom”, is an essential part of every creed – theistic or atheistic. It gives the broader underpinnings of the belief which is important to properly understand the belief and ensure it’s everlasting continuity by applying it to later times and new situations.

Muslimphilosophy.com is a rich online resource having information about major Muslim philosophers from the advent of Islam in 7th century to the modern times. The source material of the website is from the Encyclopedia of Philosophy From the Routledge. The sheer diversity of philosophical is a unique feature of this project.

It has prominent Muslim philosophers like –

  • al Kindi (death 866 AD) , al Farabi (870-950) , Ibn Sina (Avicenna; 980 – 1037 ),  Al-Ghazali (1058-1111),  Ibn Rushd (Averroes; 1126-1198),  Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328), Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406 AD), Mulla Sadra (1571-1640), Muhammad Iqbal (1877 -1938),etc. and
  • modern philosophers like Abdel-Rahman Badawi (1917- 2002), Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr (1935-1980), Syed Hossein Nasr (1933- ), etc.

Apart from Muslim philosophers the website has links to research journals and other resources related to the subject like Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical terms. The contribution to the online resource has been made by some of the most prominent scholars in the field. The resources are present in multiple languages like Arabic, English, French,etc.

Link to the website – http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/

Routledge is a multi-national academic publisher on various subjects. The editor of this encyclopedia is Oliver Leaman. He is the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP) Subject Editor for Arabic and Islamic Philosophy. He was Reader in Philosophy at Liverpool John Moores University and now at University of Kentucky, USA.

Some of his publications include :

  1. History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. S. H. Nasr & O. Leaman, Routledge, 1996
  2. Friendship East and West – Philosophical Perspectives, ed. O. Leaman, Curzon, 1996.
  3. History of Jewish Philosophy, ed. D. Frank & O. Leaman, Routledge, 1996.
  4. Moses Maimonides Curzon, 1997, 2nd Edition
  5. Averroes and his Philosophy  Curzon, 1997, 2nd Edition
  6. Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, ed. G. Howarth & O. Leaman, Routledge,2001
  7. Lost in Translation: Essays in Islamic and Jewish Philosophy, Sarajevo: buybook, 2004
  8. Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction, Edinburgh University Press, Islamic Surveys Series, 2004. In the US published by University of Notre Dame Press.
  9. The Qur’an: An Encyclopedia, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2006; paperback 2008
  10. Jewish Thought: an Introduction, London, Routledge, 2006