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History of Islamic Philosophy

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Collection of essays on Islamic philosophy

History of Islamic Philosophy,^[1] first published in 1996 with, is a collection of essays by various authorities onIslam in the Routledge series History of World Philosophies and is edited bySeyyed Hossein Nasr ofGeorge Washington University and Oliver Leaman ofLiverpool John Moores University.^[2]^[3] The book has been well reviewed (the book jacket carries positive praise from theLondon University School of Oriental and African Studies).

In over 1200 pages the book explores many varieties of Islamic thought as follows:

Section I - the concept of philosophy in Islam, the background of Islamic philosophy,Sunni theology,Shia theology,Ismaili philosophy, and Islamichumanism.
Section II - Early Islamic philosophers:Al-Kindi,Al-Farabi,Al-Razi,Al Amiri,Ikhwan al-Safa,Ibn Sina,Ibn Miskawayh, andAl-Ghazali.
Section III - Islamic philosophers in the Western lands of Islam:Ibn Masarrah,Ibn Bajjah,Ibn Tufayl,Ibn Rushd,Ibn Sabin, andIbn Khaldun.
Section IV - Islam and the mystics:Ayn-al-Qudat Hamadani,Suhrawardi, TheIlluminationist philosophy, andIbn Arabi.
Section V - Later Islamic philosophers and philosophies:al-Tusi,Isfahan School,Mir Damad,Mulla Sadra, Shah Waliullah.
Section VI - Jewish philosophical tradition in the Islamic world:Saadia Gaon,Ibn Gabirol,Judah Halevi,Maimonides, andLevi ben Gershom.
Section VII -metaphysics,logic,epistemology,political philosophy,literature,language,science,mysticism,ethics,aesthetics, andlaw.
Section VIII - the interpretation of Islam inMedieval Europe and the ModernWest.
Section IX - Islamic philosophy in the modern Islamic world in countries like:Persia,India,Pakistan, theArab world,Egypt,Turkey, andSoutheast Asia.
Section X - How Islamic philosophy is explained in theWest in terms ofOrientalism. The contribution ofHenry Corbin and Islamic philosophy inRussia and theSoviet Union.

^Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman, ed. (2001).History of Islamic Philosophy. History of World Philosophies. Routledge.
^Burnett, Chris (1997). "The Near and Middle East - Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman (ed.): History of Islamic philosophy. (Routledge History of World Philosophies, Vol. 1, Parts 1 and 2.) xx, 780 pp.; xiv, 783–1211 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. £120".Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.60 (3):552–553.doi:10.1017/S0041977X00032675.
^McGinnis, Jon (2002)."History of Islamic Philosophy".The Journal of the American Oriental Society.122 (4): 855 ff.doi:10.2307/3217632.JSTOR 3217632.

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