Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants—these images became common at the turn of the 21st century in many once modern “civilized” countries. In quite a few of them, long-time neighbours came to kill each other, apparently motivated by the newly discovered differences of religion, language, or origin. Civil nationalism gave way to tribal, ethnic, and confessional conflict. Ration...

Mit der Begriffsbestimmung der Falsafa als einer islamisierten aristotelisch-neuplatonischen Philosophie durch den Philosophen Al-Farabi setzte diese in der muslimisch geprägten Welt zu ihrem Siegeszug an. Die Autoren führen multiperspektivisch in die Gedanken jener Philosophen ein, die diese Blütezeit prägten: von den Lauteren Brüdern und Al-Biruni, über Ibn Sina, Ibn Al-Haitham bis zu Umar Khayyam. Der vorliegende dritte Band setzt sich u. a. mit dem islamischen Humanismus der Lauteren B...

The Volume brings together scholars from Azerbaijan, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey to approach the new field of Eco-Imagination from various philosophical and disciplinary backgrounds. Sufism and its Micro-Macro philosophy in Ikhwan al-Safa, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardy, Nishabouri, and Mulla Sadra are in dialogue with the Logos of Life Philosophy founded by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923 – 2014). This book provides a multi-perspective insight into the under...

The contributions, composed in this volume, are inspired not only by the necessity but also by the potentialities of a process which continues and deepens cross-cultural understanding, especially between Islamic and Western philosophy. Following the tradition of an East-Western symphony of thoughts, the authors focus on common horizons and while applying comparative and historical approaches, varieties of unity appear on the ways towards a New Enlightenment. The creative force, orchestrati...