With its stimulating collection of traditions from the main figures of Islam, Great Traditions in Islamic Ethics takes the reader beyond the morality of Islam to the profound nature of Islamic Mystical inquiry. This excellent resource helps scholars, students and interests in Islamic Morality develop their knowledge and understanding needed to examine and scrutinize traditions in Islamic ethics. This book (hopefully the first volume of consecutive volumes) has an introduction and eight chapters. The first chapter contains selected verses from the Holy Quran which concern certain moral...

This book presents a comparative approach to the virtue of 'Love of God'; it is a mystical analysis based on Islamic and Christian moral theologies. This study provides an exposition and comparative analysis of Kashani's (1598-1680) and Malebranche's (1638-1715) conception of virtue, with particular attention paid to the role of love of God. One of the main goals of this research is to develop an understanding of the notion of love of God within the philosophical and mystical contexts of two different thinkers, each from a particular traditional horizon. This entails explicating each...

This book explores the issue of knowledge by presence as an epistemological problem in philosophy. Al-Ilm al-Huduri (knowledge by presence) deserves as an epistemological bridge between philosophy and mysticism. This book is a comparative study of the epistemology of Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra Shirazi, two Muslim thinkers of the 6th/12th and 11th/17th century. It focuses on two main issues: Illuminative theory of knowledge and, in the framework of this theory, Mulla Sadra's doctrine of knowledge by presence (al-'ilm al-huduri) studied in the context of his philosophical system (al-hikmah...