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View article: Effectiveness of Homeopathic Interventions for Insomnia and Sleep Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Effectiveness of Homeopathic Interventions for Insomnia and Sleep Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open
Insomnia is a common sleep disorder, and many individuals seek alternative treatments like homeopathy. However, evidence for its effectiveness remains controversial. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of h…
View article: Elaborating on the Water Wars: The Politics of a Thirsty World
Elaborating on the Water Wars: The Politics of a Thirsty World Open
View article: Decolonising Islamic Intellectual History: Perspectives from Shiʿi Thought
Decolonising Islamic Intellectual History: Perspectives from Shiʿi Thought Open
Historians are in the business of engaging with actualities but also with possibilities, thinking and experiencing what we can be, what we may discern, and what we can sense and whence we come to understandings of the past. Just as the pas…
View article: Shiʿi Theology and Polemics between Iran and India: The Case of Saiyed Nūrollāh Šūštarī (d. 1019/1610)
Shiʿi Theology and Polemics between Iran and India: The Case of Saiyed Nūrollāh Šūštarī (d. 1019/1610) Open
Connected intellectual history is one of the modes in which we can consider the ways in which ideas, theologies and even polemical exchanges travel between different geographical and political milieux. In this case study, I examine the the…
View article: Inscribing Persian in the Arabic Cosmopolis
Inscribing Persian in the Arabic Cosmopolis Open
Scholarly discourse on the Persianate tends to focus on the influence of Persian in Iran and further east, and often occludes the way in which the Persian language is inflected and present in the Arabic cosmopolis further west. Similarly, …
View article: Considering Divine Providence in Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636): The Problem of Evil, Theodicy, and the Divine Eros
Considering Divine Providence in Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636): The Problem of Evil, Theodicy, and the Divine Eros Open
Despite the extensive work on the Safavid thinker Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636) nowadays in metropolitan academia, certain areas of philosophical and theological concern remain understudied, if studied at all – and even then, there is …
View article: The Challenge of Evil in Islamic Thought: A Brief Survey
The Challenge of Evil in Islamic Thought: A Brief Survey Open
The challenge of evil to rational Abrahamic religions has clearly been articulated in modern philosophy of religion predicated on the incompatibility of the omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and omniscience of God with the existence of evils. …
View article: God, Cosmos, and Humanity: Muslim Perspectives on Divine Providence
God, Cosmos, and Humanity: Muslim Perspectives on Divine Providence Open
The very notion of divine providence is inextricably linked to our conceptions of Islam. After a consideration of a more scripturally founded model of divine providence and indeed of how we might understand the reality of Islam, I will exa…
View article: Reversing the Gaze? Or Decolonizing the Study of the Qurʾan
Reversing the Gaze? Or Decolonizing the Study of the Qurʾan Open
Taking as the starting point, Majid Daneshgar’s Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy , I argue that the political and intellectual contexts for the study of Islam and indeed the Qur’an cannot be ignored whether the study is conducted …
View article: MOLLĀ ṢADRĀ ŠIRĀZI
MOLLĀ ṢADRĀ ŠIRĀZI Open
View article: MIR FENDERESKI
MIR FENDERESKI Open
View article: QĀŻI SAʿID QOMI
QĀŻI SAʿID QOMI Open
View article: ISFAHAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY
ISFAHAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY Open
View article: Introduction: Framing Bedil, Arguing the Indo-Persian Self
Introduction: Framing Bedil, Arguing the Indo-Persian Self Open
View article: An Avicennian Engagement with and Appropriation of Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636)
An Avicennian Engagement with and Appropriation of Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636) Open
Recent scholarship on Avicenna and Avicennism has tended to focus on the spread and dissemination of his ideas in the early centuries. However, the later readings and contestations of Avicennism especially from the Safavid period onwards h…
View article: Tradition and Islamic Philosophy: Some Recent Urdu Publications on Mullā Ṣadrā
Tradition and Islamic Philosophy: Some Recent Urdu Publications on Mullā Ṣadrā Open
The reception of Mullā Ṣadrā in South Asia began soon after his death through the dissemination and commentary culture on his Sharḥ al-Hidāyah that was adopted into the Dars-e Niz̤āmī pedagogy in the eighteenth century. However, the modern …
View article: The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy. Richard C. Taylor, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat (eds.).
The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy. Richard C. Taylor, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat (eds.). Open
View article: Controversies in Formative Shiʿi Islam
Controversies in Formative Shiʿi Islam Open
Research into the formative period of Shiʿi Islam has come a long way inthe last couple of decades. This welcome development has been inspired,in particular, by the work of Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, whose main insighthas been to posit that…
View article: Words of Power: Ḥurūfī Teachings between Shi‘ism and Sufism in Medieval Islam
Words of Power: Ḥurūfī Teachings between Shi‘ism and Sufism in Medieval Islam Open
The study of Islamic intellectual history, while existing in pockets of scholarshipbefore, has increasingly become a dominant aspect of the study of Islam.We have moved from some piecemeal approaches to the classical period to amore carefu…
View article: Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
Epistles of the Brethren of Purity Open
Since I and others have already commented on this project’s significance interms of producing critical editions and annotated translations of the intriguingcorpus of texts produced in southern Iraq during the tenth century by a collectivec…
View article: Between Hegel and Rumi: Iqbal’s Contrapuntal Encounters with the Islamic Philosophical Traditions
Between Hegel and Rumi: Iqbal’s Contrapuntal Encounters with the Islamic Philosophical Traditions Open
This chapter discusses Muhamad Iqbal's place in South Asian thought through his interaction with contemporary Muslim and European ideas and thinkers. Iqbal transcends all attempts to limit his philosophy to a particular school or influence…
View article: 6 Between Hegel and Rumi: Iqbal’s Contrapuntal Encounters with the Islamic Philosophical Traditions
6 Between Hegel and Rumi: Iqbal’s Contrapuntal Encounters with the Islamic Philosophical Traditions Open
T he colonial period in British India witnessed the rise of different responses articulated by religious communities to both their traditions of scriptural and vernacular knowledge systems as well as attempts to make sense of how modernity…
View article: Mirror for the Muslim Prince
Mirror for the Muslim Prince Open
Everyone seems to be interested in Islamic political thought these days, nodoubt as a result of the rise and fall of Islamisms/post-Islamisms and othercontemporary configurations of Islam and politics. And then there are the claimants for …