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The Lion of the Destruction of Principles (Tattvopaplavasiṃha)
The only substantial work linked to the Cārvāka or Lokāyata materialists to survive, though its link to them is debated and its position is far more radical than…
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The Meccan Revelations
A vast compendium of Sufi teaching in 560 chapters, begun by Ibn ʿArabī in Mecca in 1202 and rewritten by him in a second version completed in 1238.…
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Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism
A two-part treatise by the German Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, published in Berlin in 1783. Part One concerns the relation between state and religion. Mendelssohn distinguishes actions…
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Tattvacintāmaṇi (The Jewel of Reflection on Reality)
The founding text of Navya-Nyāya, the 'new logic' of later Indian philosophy, written by Gaṅgeśa in Mithilā. It is organised around the four means of knowledge that Nyāya…
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The Risāla: Al-Qushayri’s Epistle on Sufism
A classic manual of Sufism written in 1045 by Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī, a Sufi of Nishapur and a scholar of Ashʿarī theology. He wrote it to show that…
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Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism
The last major work of Hermann Cohen, founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, published in 1919, the year after his death. Cohen reads the Hebrew Bible, the…
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Māṇḍūkya Kārikā
A treatise of some 215 verses in four chapters, the earliest surviving systematic work of Advaita Vedānta, attributed to Gauḍapāda, whom tradition makes the teacher of Shankara's teacher.…
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The Conclusive Argument from God
The major work of the eighteenth-century Delhi scholar Shāh Walī Allāh, written in Arabic. Its title, taken from the Qur'an, refers to God's conclusive argument. The work sets…
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The Star of Redemption
Franz Rosenzweig's main work, begun in 1918 while he served as a German soldier on the Balkan front, finished in early 1919 and published in 1921. It opens…
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Arthaśāstra
A comprehensive treatise on statecraft, economics and law, traditionally ascribed to Kauṭilya (also called Cāṇakya), minister to the Maurya emperor Chandragupta, though many scholars now see it as…
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