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Islamic Philosophy

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

9Thinkers
3Thoughts
28Major Works
19Archive Entries
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Ali Shariati

Examines revolutionary religion, Shiism, alienation, colonialism, martyrdom, sociology, and the mobilizing power of belief.

“Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala.”
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A history of Islamic Philosophy

1207–1273

Rumi

Medieval

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c. 872–950

Al-Farabi

Builds a vision of politics ordered around virtue, intellect, and human perfection.

Islamic Philosophy · Medieval Philosophy · Metaphysics
1207–1273

Rumi

Approaches love, longing, ego, spiritual transformation, poetry, paradox, and the soul’s movement toward union.

Ethics · Islamic Philosophy · Poetry
1877–1938

Muhammad Iqbal

Explores selfhood, Islam, poetry, renewal, freedom, time, and the reconstruction of religious thought under modernity.

Islamic Philosophy · Poetry · Political Philosophy
1919–1988

Fazlur Rahman

Develops Islamic modernism, contextual interpretation, ethics, revelation, education, and the double movement of reading scripture.

Education · Ethics · Islamic Philosophy
1933–1977

Ali Shariati

Examines revolutionary religion, Shiism, alienation, colonialism, martyrdom, sociology, and the mobilizing power of belief.

Anti-Colonial Thought · Islamic Philosophy · Political Philosophy
1945–present

Abdolkarim Soroush

Explores religious democracy, pluralism, fallible interpretation, revelation, freedom, and the difference between religion and religious knowledge.

Ethics · Islamic Philosophy · Political Philosophy
1933–present

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Defends sacred science, tradition, metaphysics, ecology, perennial wisdom, and the spiritual critique of modern reductionism.

Ecology · Islamic Philosophy · Metaphysics
980–1037

Ibn Sina

Connects metaphysics, medicine, logic, psychology, and the nature of being through rigorous Islamic Golden Age reasoning.

Islamic Philosophy · Medieval Philosophy · Metaphysics
1126–1198

Ibn Rushd

Defends reason, interpretation, law, and philosophical inquiry while clarifying Aristotle’s influence in Islamic and European thought.

Islamic Philosophy · Medieval Philosophy · Political Philosophy
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