Series
Philosophical works from the Islamic tradition, introduced for readers who were never handed a map of it.
These are books that were once central and are now mostly cited rather than read. The obstacle is rarely difficulty. It is that they answer questions posed by other books, in a conversation nobody explains before handing you the volume.
Each edition in this series opens with an essay on what the argument is, what it was responding to, and where it sits in a tradition that ran for a thousand years before European philosophy noticed it.
In this series
Iqbal's Munich doctoral thesis, tracing Persian metaphysical thought from Zoroaster forward. Written before he became the poet everyone quotes, by a young philosopher arguing that a whole tradition had been read badly.
A short early treatise by the physician-philosopher whose work shaped medicine and metaphysics from Bukhara to Paris — on the soul, its faculties, and its relation to the body, the question that organised centuries of thought before it was handed to psychology. Presented with discussion and commentary.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
Manuscript material presented as the object it is — the hand, the page, the illumination — with annotation for readers who were never taught to look at script.
See the series → 1 titleThe poems and romances that shaped a literary world from Anatolia to Bengal, in editions that treat them as literature rather than curiosities.
See the series → 1 titleNovels and essays in English that are met too early, in editions nobody chose, and rarely returned to.
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