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The Theology of Unity
A concise statement of Islamic belief by the Egyptian reformer and later Grand Mufti Muḥammad ʿAbduh, based on lectures he gave in Beirut in the 1880s and published…
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God in Search of Man
A full statement of Jewish religious thought by the rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, published in 1955 as a companion to his earlier Man Is Not Alone.…
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Tirukkural
A Tamil classic of 1,330 couplets (kural) arranged in 133 chapters of ten, attributed to the poet Thiruvalluvar, about whom almost nothing is reliably known. It is divided…
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Islam and Modernity
A study by the Pakistani-born scholar Fazlur Rahman of Islamic education and intellectual life, from the medieval schools to the twentieth century; its subtitle is Transformation of an…
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Totality and Infinity
Emmanuel Levinas's first major work, presented as his state doctoral thesis and published in 1961 with the subtitle An Essay on Exteriority. Its preface links Western philosophy's urge…
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The Recognition Sutras (Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam)
A short work of twenty aphorisms (sūtras) with the author's own commentary, written by Kṣemarāja, a leading disciple of Abhinavagupta, to present the Recognition (Pratyabhijñā) philosophy of Kashmir…
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Knowledge and the Sacred
The text of the Gifford Lectures that Seyyed Hossein Nasr gave at Edinburgh in 1981, the first by a Muslim scholar. Nasr argues that knowledge was originally inseparable…
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Commentary on the Brahma Sūtras (Brahmasūtrabhāṣya)
Shankara's commentary on the Brahma Sūtras, the terse aphorisms attributed to Bādarāyaṇa that systematise the teaching of the Upaniṣads, is the central text of Advaita (non-dual) Vedānta. It…
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Raja Yoga
A book based on lectures and classes Vivekananda gave in New York in 1895 and 1896, and one of the first presentations of yoga for Western readers. It…
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The Veil and the Male Elite
A study by the Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi of the sources used to restrict women's role in Islam, first published in French as Le Harem politique. Mernissi asks…
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