English-Language Titles in Islamic Mysticism, Philosophy, and Theology

Some Key English-Language Titles in Islamic Mysticism, Philosophy, and Theology

This fine Bibliography comes to us courtesy of
Dr. Mohammed Rustom, Carleton University

Anthologies, Books, and Collective Volumes

Adamson, Peter. Al-Kindi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Adamson, Peter and Richard Taylor (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Addas, Claude. Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ‘Arabi. Trans. Peter Kingsley. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.

Akkach, Samer. Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading of
Mystical Ideas. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.

Aminrazavi, Mehdi. Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination. Surrey: Curzon, 1997.

_______. The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam. Oxford: Oneworld, 2005.

Amir-Moezzi, Mohammed Ali. The Divine Guide in Early Shi‘ism: The Sources of Esotericism in Islam. Trans. David Streight. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Aslan, Adnan. Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Richmond: Curzon, 1998.

Ashtiyani, S.J., H. Matsubara, T. Iwami and A. Matsumoto (eds.). Consciousness and Reality: Studies in Memory of Toshihiko Izutsu. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

Awn, Peter. Satan’s Tragedy and Redemption: Iblis in Sufi Psychology. Leiden: Brill, 1983.
Badawi, Mostafa. Sufi Sage of Arabia. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2005.

Bakar, Osman. The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1999.

Bar-Asher, Meir. Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism. Boston, Köln, and Leiden: Brill, 1999.

Bayrak, Tosun. The Name and the Named. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 1999.

Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi. The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Bill, J.A. and John A. Williams. Roman Catholics and Shi‘i Muslims: Prayer, Passion, and
Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Black, Deborah. Logic and Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Poetics in Medieval Arabic Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 1990.

Böwering, Gerhard. The Classical Vision of Existence in Islam: the Qur’anic Hermeneutics of the Sufi Sahl al-Tustari (d. 283/896). Berlin: de Gruyter, 1979.

Browne, E.G. A Literary History of Persia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964-9.
Brujin, J.T.P. de. Classical Persian Poetry: An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Persian Poems. Richmond: Curzon, 1997.

Burckhardt, Titus. Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul. Trans. William Stoddart. Shaftesbury: Element, 1986.

_______. Art of Islam: Language and Meaning. Trans. J.P. Hobson. Westerham: World of Islam Festival Publishing Co., 1976.

_______. Introduction to Sufi Doctrine. Trans. D.M. Matheson. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2008.

_______. The Essential Titus Burckhardt. Ed. William Stoddart. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2003.

_______. Fez: City of Islam. Trans. William Stoddart. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1992.

_______. Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science and Sacred Art. Trans. and ed. William Stoddart. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.

_______. Moorish Culture in Spain. Trans. Alisa Jaffa. Lahore: Suhayl Academy, 1987.

_______. Mystical Astrology According to Ibn ‘Arabi. Trans. Bulent Rauf. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2001.

Burrell, David. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.

Cheetham, Tom. The World Turned Inside Out: Henry Corbin and Islamic Mysticism.
Woodstock: Spring Journal Inc, 2003.

Chittick, William. The Heart of Islamic Philosophy: The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Writings of Afdal al-Din Kashani. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

_______. Ibn ‘Arabi: Heir to the Prophets. Oxford: Oneworld, 2005.

_______. Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‘Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

_______(ed.). The Inner Journey: Views from the Islamic Tradition. Ashland: White Cloud Press, 2007.

_______. The Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

_______. Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World. Oxford: Oneworld, 2007.

_______. The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Cosmology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

_______. The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2005.

_______. The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983.

_______. The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

_______. Sufism: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Oneworld, 2000.

Chodkiewicz, Michel. An Ocean Without Shore: Ibn ‘Arabi, the Book and the Law. Trans. David Streight. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.

______. Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn ‘Arabi. Trans. Liadain Sherrard. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.

_______. The Spiritual Writings of Emir ‘Abd al-Kader. Trans. James Chrestensen, Tom Manning, et al. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Corbin, Henry. Avicenna and the Visionary Recital. Trans. Willard Trask. Irving: Spring
Publications, 1980.

_______. Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis. Trans. Ralph Manheim and James Morris. London:
Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications Ltd., 1983.

_______. Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi. Trans. Ralph Manheim Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997.

_______. The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. Trans. Nancy Pearson. Boulder: Shambala, 1978.

_______. Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth. Trans. Nancy Pearson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

_______. The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy. Trans. Joseph Rowe. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1998.

Corbin, Henry, with S.H. Nasr and Osman Yahia. History of Islamic Philosophy. Trans. Liadain Sherrard with the assistance of Phillip Sherrard. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1993.

Craig, William Lane. The Kalam Cosmological Argument. London: Macmillan, 1979.

Critchlow, Keith. Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach. London: Thames
and Hudson, 1976.

Daiber, Hans. Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 1999.

Daftary, Farhad (ed.). Intellectual Traditions in Islam. London and New York: I.B. Tauris in
association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2000.

Davidson, Herbert. Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of the Human Intellect. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

De Jong, Frederick and Bernd Radtke (eds.). Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics. Boston and Köln: Brill, 1999.

Dhanani, Alnoor. The Physical Theory of Kalam: Atoms, Space, and Void in Basrian Mu‘tazili Cosmology. Leiden and New York: Brill, 1994.

Eaton, Gai. Islam and the Destiny of Man. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.

_______. Remembering God: Reflections on Islam. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2000.

Elmore, Gerald. Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Book of the Fabulous Gryphon. Leiden: Brill, 1999. Contains a translation of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s ‘Anqa’ al-mughrib.

Ernst, Carl. The Shambala Guide to Sufism. Boston: Shambala, 1997.

_______. Words of Ecstasy in Sufism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.
Faghfoory, Mohammad (ed.). Beacon of Knowledge: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2003.

Fakhry, Majid. Averroes: His Life, Works, and Influence. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001.

_______. Al-Farabi, Founder of Islamic Neoplatonism: His Life, Works and Influence. Oxford: Oneworld, 2002.

_______. History of Islamic Philosophy. 3rd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

_______. Philosophy, Dogma, and the Impact of Greek Thought in Islam. Aldershot: Variorum, 1994.
_______. A Short Introduction to Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism. Oxford: Oneworld, 1997.

Frank, Richard. Al-Ghazali and the Ash‘arite School. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

_______. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam. 3 vols. Ed. Dimitri Gutas. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2005-8.

Gleave, Robert. Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbari Shi‘i School. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Graham, William. Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam. The Hague: Mouton, 1977.

Groff, Peter. Islamic Philosophy A-Z. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Guénon, René. The Crisis of the Modern World. Trans. Arthur Osborne. London: Luzac, 1942.

_______. Insights into Islamic Esoterism and Taoism. Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 2001.

_______. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times. Trans. Lord Northbourne. Baltimore: Penguin, 1972.

Gutas, Dimitri. Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works. Leiden: Brill, 1988.

Hairi Yazdi, Mehdi. The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Hoover, John. Ibn Taymiyyah’s Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007.

Hourani, George. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

_______. Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Hughes, Aaron. The Texture of the Divine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Iqbal, Muhammad. The Development of Metaphysics in Persia. London: Luzac, 1908.

_______. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.

Izutsu, Toshihiko. The Concept of Belief in Islamic Theology: A Semantic Analysis of Iman and Islam. Tokyo: The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, 1965.

_______. The Concept and Reality of Existence. Tokyo: The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, 1971.

_______. Creation and the Timeless Order of Things: Essays in Islamic Mystical Philosophy. Ashland: White Cloud Press, 1994.

_______. Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1966.

_______. The Fundamental Structure of Sabzawari’s Metaphysics. Tehran: McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies, 1968.

_______. Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts. 2nd ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

Jambet, Christian. The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in Mulla Sadra. Trans. Jeff Fort. New York: Zone Books, 2006.

Kalin, Ibrahim. Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra on Existence, Intellect and Intuition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Karamustafa, Ahmet. Sufism: The Formative Period. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Keeler, Annabel. Sufi Hermeneutics: The Qur’an Commentary of Rashid al-Din Maybudi. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2007.

Kennedy-Day, Kiki. Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy: The Limits of Words. London and New York: RouledgeCurzon, 2003.
Knysh, Alexander. Ibn ‘Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

_______. Islamic Mysticism: A Short History. Boston and Köln: Brill, 2000.

Lakhani, Ali (ed.). The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam: The Teachings of ‘Ali ibn Abi
Talib. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2006.

Lalani, Arzina. Early Shi‘i Thought: The Teachings of Imam Muhammad al-Baqir. London: I. B.
Tauris in association with The Insititute of Ismaili Studies, 2000.

Lane, Andrew. A Traditional Mu‘tazilite Qur’an Commentary: The Kashshaf of Jar Allah Zamakhshari (d. 538/1144). Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Lawrence, Bruce. The Qur’an: A Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.

Lawson, Todd. The Crucifixion and the Qur’an. Oxford: Oneworld, 2009.

_______(ed.). Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy, and Mysticism in Muslim Thought. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005.

Leaman, Oliver. A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999.

_______. An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Leaman, Oliver (ed.). Biographical Encyclopaedia of Islamic Philosophy. 2 vols. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006.

Lewis, Franklin. Rumi: Past and Present, East and West. Oxford: Oneworld, 2000.

Lewisohn, Leonard. Beyond Faith and Infidelity: the Sufi Poetry and Teachings of Mahmud Shabistari. Richmond: Curzon, 1995.

_______. (ed.). The Heritage of Sufism. 3 vols. Oxford: Oneworld, 2000.

Lings, Martin. A Return to the Spirit: Questions and Answers. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2005.

_______. The Book of Certainty. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1992.

_______. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1983.

_______. A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.

_______. Symbol and Archetype. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2005.

_______. What is Sufism? London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1975.

Lings, Martin and Clinton Minnaar (eds.). The Underlying Religion. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2007.

Lumbard, Joseph (ed.). Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2004.

_______. Submission, Faith, Beauty: The Religion of Islam. Berkeley: Zaytuna Institute, 2008.

Mahmutćehajić, Rusmir. The Mosque: The Heart of Submission. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006.

_______. On Love. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.

Madelung, Wilfred. Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam. London: Variorum, 1985.
Marmura, Michael. Probing in Islamic Philosophy. Binghamton: Global Academic Publishers, 2005.

Massignon, Louis. The Passion of al-ÍallÁj: Mystic and Martyr of Islam. Trans. Herbert Mason. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Mattson, Ingrid. The Story of the Qur’an. Malden: Blackwell, 2008.

Michon, Jean-Louis (ed.). Sufism: Love and Wisdom. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2006.

Mitha, Farouk. Al-Ghazali and the Ismailis: A Debate on Reason and Authority in Medieval
Islam. London and New York: I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2001.

Morewedge, Parviz. Essays in Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism. Oneonta: Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Oneonta, 1995.

_______ (ed.). Neoplatonism and Islamic Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Moris, Zailan (ed.). Knowledge is Light: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Chicago: ABC International, 1997.

Morris, James. The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn ‘Arabi’s
Meccan Illuminations. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2005.

Morrison, Robert. Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din Nisaburi. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Murata, Sachiko. Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü’s Great Learning of the Pure and
Real and Liu Chih’s Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Contains a translation of Jami’s Lawa’ih by William Chittick.

_______. The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Murata, Sachiko, and William Chittick. The Vision of Islam. New York: Paragon, 1994.

Murata, Sachiko, William Chittick and Tu Weiming. The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Centre, 2009.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Ed. William Chittick. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2007.

_______. The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition. New York: HarperOne, 2007.

_______. Ideals and Realities of Islam. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2001.

_______. An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines. 2nd ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

_______. Islamic Art and Spirituality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.

_______. The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia. Ed. Mehdi Aminrazavi. Surrey: Curzon, 1996.

_______. Islamic Life and Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981.

_______. Islamic Philosophy from its Origins to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.

_______. Islam and the Plight of Modern Man. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2002.

_______. Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study. Westerham: World of Islam Festival Publishing Co., 1976.

_______. Islam, Science, Muslims and Technology: Seyyed Hossein Nasr in Conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal. Sherwood Park: Al-Qalam Publishing, 2007.

_______(ed.). Islamic Spirituality. 2 vols. New York: Crossroad, 1987-91.

_______. Knowledge and the Sacred. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

_______. The Need for a Sacred Science. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

_______. The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Eds. L.E. Hahn, R.E. Auxier, and Lucian Stone Jr. LaSalle: Open Court, 2001.

_______. Religion and the Order of Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

_______. Sadr al-Din Shirazi and His Transcendent Theosophy. Tehran: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, 1997.

_______. Science and Civilization in Islam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.

_______. Sufi Essays. Chicago: ABC, 1993.

_______. Three Muslim Sages. Delmar, NY: Caravan, 1997.

_______. Traditional Islam in the Modern World. London: Kegan Paul International, 1987.

_______. A Young Muslim’s Guide to the Modern World. Chicago: Kazi, 1994.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein and Katherine O’Brien (eds.). The Essential Sophia. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2006.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein and Oliver Leaman (eds.). History of Islamic Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Vali Reza Nasr and Hamid Dabashi. (eds.). Shi‘ism: Doctrines, Thought, and Spirituality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Netton, Ian Richard. Allah Transcendent: Studies in the Structure and Semiotics of Islamic
Philosophy, Theology, and Cosmology. London and New York: Routledge, 1989.

Nomachi, Ali Kazuyo and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Mecca the Blessed, Madina the Radiant. New
York: Aperture, 1997.

O’Mahony, A. et al. (eds). Catholics and Shi‘a in Dialogue: Studies in Theology and Spirituality.
London: Melisende, 2004.

Perry, Withall (ed.). The Spiritual Ascent. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2008.

Peters, Ted, Muzaffar Iqbal and Syed Nomanul Haq (eds.). God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

Rahman, Fazlur. The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975.
Rizvi, S.A.A. A History of Sufism in India. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1978-83.
Rizvi, Sajjad. Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics: Modulation of Being. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.

Rosenthal, Franz. Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1970.

Saleh, Walid. The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition: The Qur’an Commentary of Al-
Tha‘labi (D. 427/1035). Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Sands, Kristin Zahra. Sufi Commentaries on the Qur’an in Classical Islam. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.

Schimmel, Annemarie. Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994.

_______. And Muhammad is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

_______. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

_______. The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

_______. As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001.

_______. A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Schmidtke, Sabine. The Theology of al-‘Allamah Hilli (d. 726/1325). Berlin: K. Schwarz, 1991.

Schuon, Frithjof. Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism. Ed. James Cutsinger.
Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2008.

_______. The Essential Frithjof Schuon. Ed. S.H. Nasr. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2005.

_______. Sufism: Veil and Quintessence. Ed. James Cutsinger. Bloomington: World Wisdom,
2006.

_______. Understanding Islam. Trans. D.M. Matheson. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 1998.

Sells, Michael. Mystical Languages of Unsaying. Chicago and London: University of Chicago
Press, 1994.

Shah-Kazemi, Reza. Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam ‘Ali. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2006.

_______. The Other in the Light of the One: The Universality of the Qur’an and Interfaith Dialogue. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2006.

_______. Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi, and Meister Eckhart. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2006.

Shaybi, Kamil Mustafa. Sufism and Shi‘ism. Surrey: L.A.A.M., 1991.

Shihadeh, Ayman. The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

_______(ed.). Sufism and Theology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Sobhani, Ja‘far. Doctrines of Shi‘i Islam: A Compendium of Imami Beliefs and Practices. Trans. Reza Shah-Kazemi. London and New York: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2001.

Tabataba’i, Muhammad Husayn. Shi‘ite Islam. Trans. S.H. Nasr. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975.

Thurlkill, Mary. Chosen Among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi’ite Islam. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (ed.). Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008.

_______ (ed). Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life.
Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.

Yousef, Mohamed Haj. Ibn ‘Arabi: Time and Cosmology. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Watt, W. M. The Formative Period of Islamic Thought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973.

_______. Islamic Philosophy and Theology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1962.

Winter, Tim (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Wisnovsky, Robert. Avicenna’s Metaphysics in Context. London: Duckworth, 2003.

Wolfson, H.A. The Philosophy of the Kalam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.


Complete Translations

Abu Madyan. The Way of Abu Madyan. Trans. Vincent Cornell. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1996.

Aflaki, Shams al-Din. The Feats of the Knowers of God. Trans. John O’Kane. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2002.

Ansari, ‘Abd Allah. Intimate Conversations. Trans. Wheeler Thackston. Published along with Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah, The Book of Wisdom. Trans. Victor Danner. New York: Paulist Press, 1978.

Ash‘ari, Abu’l-Hasan al-. The Theology of al-Ash‘ari. Trans. R. J. McCarthy. Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique, 1953.

‘Attar, Farid al-Din. The Conference of the Birds. Trans. Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis. London: Penguin, 1984.

Averröes. Decisive Treatise & Epistle Dedicatory. Trans. Charles Butterworth. Provo: Brigham
Young University Press, 2001.

_______. Faith and Reason in Islam. Trans. Ibrahim Najjar. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001.

Avicenna. Ibn Sina on Mysticism: Remarks and Admonitions, part 4. Trans. Sham Inati. London: Keagan Paul International, 1996.

_______. The Metaphysics of the Healing. Trans. Michael Marmura. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2005.

Baqli, Ruzbihan. The Unveiling of Secrets. Trans. Carl Ernst. Chapel Hill: Parvardigar Press, 1997.

Baydawi, ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Umar. Nature, Man, and God in Medieval Islam. Trans. Edwin Calverley and James Pollock. 2 vols. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2002.

Cadavid, Leslie (trans.). Two Who Attained. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2006.

Dihlawi, Shah Wali Allah. The Conclusive Argument from God. Trans. Marcia Hermansen. Leiden: Brill, 1996.

Faghfoory, Mohammad (trans.). Tuhfah-yi ‘Abbasi: The Golden Chain of Sufism in Shi‘ite Islam. Lanham: University Press of American, 2008.

Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-. Disciplining the Soul and Breaking the Two Desires. Trans. T.J. Winter. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.

_______. The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Trans. Michael Marmura. 2nd ed. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2000.

_______. The Marvels of the Heart. Trans. Walter Skellie. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, forthcoming.

_______. The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife. Trans. T.J. Winter. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1989.

_______. The Niche of Lights. Trans. David Buchman. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.

Ghazali, Ahmad al-. “No god, but God is my fortress…”: Ahmad al-Ghazali on Dhikr. Trans. Joseph Lumbard. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, forthcoming.

_______. Sawanih: Inspirations from the World of Pure Spirits. Trans. Nasrollah Pourjavady. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul International, 1986.

Haddad, Imam al-. The Book of Assistance. Trans. Mostafa al-Badawi. London: Quilliam, 1998.

_______. Gifts for the Seeker. Trans. Mostafa al-Badawi. London: Quilliam, 1992.

_______. The Lives of Man. Trans. Mostafa al-Badawi. London: Quilliam, 1991.

Hujwiri, ‘Ali b. ‘Uthman al-Jullabi al-. Revelation of the Mystery. Trans. R.A. Nicholson. New York: Pir Press, 1999.

Ibn ‘Abbad. Letters on the Sufi Path. Trans. John Renard. New York: Paulist Press, 1986.

Ibn ‘Abbas. Tafsir Ibn ‘Abbas. Trans. Mokrane Guezzou. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae in association with the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 2009.

Ibn ‘Ajiba. The Autobiography of a Morrocan Soufi. Trans. Jean-Louis Michon. Trans. from the French by David Streight. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 1999.

Ibn al-‘Arabi. The Bezels of Wisdom. Trans. Ralph Austin. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1980.

_______. The Ringstones of Wisdom. Trans. Caner Dagli. Chicago: Kazi, 2004.

Ibn Babuyah. A Shi‘ite Creed. Trans. A.A.A. Fyzee. London: Oxford University Press, 1942.

Ibn al-Farid. Sufi Verse, Saintly Life. Trans. Th. Emil Homerin. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2001.

Ibn Khaldun. The Muqaddima: An Introduction to History. Trans. Franz Rosenthal. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

‘Iraqi, Fakhr al-Din Ibrahim. Divine Flashes. Trans. William Chittick and Peter Wilson. New York: Paulist Press, 1982.

Iskandari, Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-. The Book of Illumination. Trans. Scott Kugle. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2005.

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