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Annihilation of Caste
An undelivered speech, written in 1936 as the presidential address for the annual conference of the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal, a Hindu reform group in Lahore. When the organisers objected…
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On the Sociology of Islam
A collection of lectures by the Iranian sociologist and activist ʿAlī Sharīʿatī, translated from Persian by Hamid Algar and published in English in 1979, the year of the…
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Pramāṇasamuccaya (Compendium of Valid Knowledge)
Dignāga's mature work, a compact verse treatise in six chapters with his own prose commentary, which turned Buddhist thought towards systematic epistemology and logic. The Sanskrit original is…
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The Rubaiyat
A collection of Persian quatrains, or rubāʿiyāt, attributed to Omar Khayyam, the eleventh- and twelfth-century mathematician and astronomer of Nishapur. Which quatrains he actually wrote is uncertain: no…
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The Dispeller of Disputes (Vigrahavyāvartanī)
A short work in seventy verses with Nāgārjuna's own prose commentary, written as a reply to critics of his claim that all things are empty (śūnya), lacking intrinsic…
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The Book of Beliefs and Opinions
The first systematic work of Jewish philosophy, written in Judaeo-Arabic by Saadia Gaon, head of the academy of Sura in Babylonia, and completed in 933. Saadia wrote it…
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Introduction to the Middle Way (Madhyamakāvatāra)
A verse treatise with Candrakīrti's own commentary, written as an entry into, or supplement to, Nāgārjuna's Middle Way. Its chapters follow the ten stages (bhūmi) of the bodhisattva…
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On the Trinity
A treatise in fifteen books, written over about twenty years, in which Augustine tries to understand the Christian teaching that God is one and three. Books I–IV gather…
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Monarchy (De Monarchia)
A Latin treatise in three books in which Dante argues for a universal temporal monarchy, or empire, independent of the papacy. Book I argues that the human race…
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The Nasirean Ethics
A Persian treatise on practical philosophy written by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī in 1235 for Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥtasham, the Ismaili governor of Quhistan, from whom it takes its name.…
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