Kind of book
Philosophy
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Vedārthasaṅgraha (Summary of the Meaning of the Veda)
A compact prose treatise in which Rāmānuja, the chief philosopher of Viśiṣṭādvaita (qualified non-dualist) Vedānta, sets out how the Upaniṣads should be read as a whole. Against Shankara's…
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The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo's main philosophical work, first serialised in his journal Arya between 1914 and 1919 and heavily revised for book publication in 1939–40. It opens with humanity's persistent…
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Islam and Secularism
A book by the Malaysian thinker Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, first published in 1978, which argues that secularism is a Western worldview incompatible with Islam. Drawing on Western…
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Vaiśeṣika Sūtra
The founding text of the Vaiśeṣika school, a collection of terse aphorisms in ten books traditionally ascribed to the sage Kaṇāda and probably compiled over a long period.…
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Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life
A collection of eight essays, most of them first read as lectures at Harvard University during Tagore's visit to the United States in 1912–13, and published in 1913.…
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The Spiritual Physick
A short ethical treatise by the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, known in Latin as Rhazes, written for the governor of Rayy as a companion to a…
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Ślokavārttika
A long verse commentary by Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, the most influential thinker of the Mīmāṃsā school, on the opening section of Śabara's commentary on the Mīmāṃsā Sūtra. That section…
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Hind Swaraj
A short book written in Gujarati in November 1909, aboard a ship returning from London to South Africa, and translated by Gandhi himself as Indian Home Rule in…
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Knowledge and Liberation
A Persian treatise in thirty questions and answers by Nāṣir-i Khusraw, the eleventh-century Ismaili poet, traveller and philosopher, probably written during his exile in the mountains of Badakhshan.…
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Pramāṇavārttika (Commentary on Valid Knowledge)
A verse treatise in four chapters by Dharmakīrti, presented as a commentary on Dignāga's Compendium of Valid Knowledge but in effect a new system of Buddhist epistemology. Like…
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