Tag: "Islamic philosophy"

Peter Adamson

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich, and a Philosophy Now columnist too. Amirali Maleki talks with him about Islamic philosophy.
[Issue 143 :: April/May 2021 :: Interview]

A Passage to India

Peter Adamson crosses continents, cultures and concepts.
[Issue 132 :: June/July 2019 :: Philosophy Then]

Pugnacious In The Punjab

Seán Moran considers holy war in Lahore.
[Issue 122 :: October/November 2017 :: Street Philosopher]

Al Qaeda and ISIS: From Revolution to Apocalypse

Audrey Borowski briefs us on the very different ideologies of two superficially similar terrorist organisations.
[Issue 111 :: December 2015 / January 2016 :: Articles]

Islamic Rationalism

Rationalism is the attitude of appealing to reason as the fundamental justification of knowledge or beliefs. Imadaldin Al-Jubouri describes the disputes among early Islamic scholars about the limits of what can be known through science and rationality.
[Issue 60 :: March/April 2007 :: Articles]

Fundamentals, Islamists and the West

Imadaldin Al-Jubouri considers how some Muslim fundamentalists justify their aggressiveness – by misreading the Qur’an, among other things.
[Issue 56 :: July/August 2006 :: Heresy]

History of Islamic Philosophy by I.M.N. Al-Jubouri

Antony Flew notices a new book on Islamic Philosophy.
[Issue 52 :: August/September 2005 :: Books]

Ibn Khaldun and the Philosophy of History

Imadaldin Al-Jubouri on the medieval Islamic philosopher who pioneered the scientific understanding of history.
[Issue 50 :: March/April 2005 :: Medieval Philosophy]

Human Acts in Islamic Philosophy

Are our actions really free or are they determined by God’s will? Imadaldin Al-Jubouri on a controversy that divided Muslim philosophers.
[Issue 47 :: August/September 2004 :: Philosophy of Religion]

M.J. Akbar

M.J. Akbar is the editor of The Asian Age newspaper and author of a new book, The Shade of Swords, in which he seeks to clairify the meaning of ‘Jihad’. He recently talked with Philosophy Now.
[Issue 37 :: August/September 2002 :: Interview]