What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these have been at

This book brings together the study of two great disciplines of the Islamic world: law and philosophy. In both sunni and shiite Islam, it became the norm for sc

A comprehensive reference work covering all figures of the earliest period of philosophy in the Islamic world. Both major and minor thinkers are covered, with d

The contributions to Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic World reflect upon the problems implied in the received notions of philosophy in the respect

Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world