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The Way of Nobility: Knowledge of the Imam (Minhāj al-karāma fī maʿrifat al-imāma) is one of the most celebrated works in favour of the Shīʿī belief in the Imāma. Apparently authored for the Mongol ruler Öljeitü Khān, this work by al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī presents a concise but crucial summary of key arguments in favour of the Imamate of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and his descendants. The work also contains detailed evidence from Sunnī historical and ḥadīth sources to establish the lack of qualifications for leadership of the Muslim community by those persons whom the majority of Muslims followed, namely, the first three so-called 'rightly guided caliphs' (al-khulafāʾ al-rāshidūn).

Islamic philosophy --- Islamic philosophy - Early works to 1800

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Avicenna, the most influential of Islamic philosophers, produced 'The Healing' as his magnum opus on his religious and political philosophy. Now translated by Michael Marmura, 'The Metaphysics' is the climactic conclusion to this towering work. Through Marmura's skill as a translator and his extensive annotations, Avicenna's touchstone of Islamic philosophy is more accessible than ever before. In 'The Metaphysics', Avicenna examines the idea of existence, and his investigation into the cause of all things leads him to a meditation on the nature of God. From this discussion, Avicenna develops a theory of divine causation that synthesizes Neoplatonic, Aristotelian, and Islamic ideas. Within this emanative scheme, Avicenna establishes some of the basic ideas of his religious and political philosophy, as he discusses the divine attributes, divine providence, the hereafter, and the ideal & virtuous city with its philosopher-prophet as the human link between the terrestrial and heavenly realms. With this edition, 'The Metaphysics' can now be better seen as one of the most masterful works of classical Islamic philosophy.

Islamic philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy, Islamic --- Early works to 1800 --- Metaphysics - Early works to 1800 --- Islamic philosophy - Early works to 1800 --- Islam --- Human medicine

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This second volume of Oeuvres philosophiques et scientifiques d'al-Kindī deals with the first metaphysical and cosmological writings in Islamic philosophy. It contains a new critical edition and French translation of six treatises due to al-Kindī, all devoted to these matters. It also contains fragments quoted by the Philosopher's successors. All those writings, rigorously edited and translated, brought together point out the true conception of philosophy of al-Kindī, philosopher and mathematician.

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