Miscellaneous Books

Every system, intending to achieve certain goals, must be designed in a realistic manner. Therefore, if the system is supposed to be implemented in order to serve human life, particularly in the long-run, it must serve man's goals and be consistent w...

Every system, intending to achieve certain goals, ...

Moja ya maswali yanayovutia watu wengi wakiwemo wanafalsafa ni juu ya asili ya mwanadamu na maisha yake kwa ujumla, tatizo lenyewe linaanzia katika kutaka kufahamu kama binadamu ana uhuru kamili katika matendo yake au anadhibitiwa? Je, matamanio yake...

Moja ya maswali yanayovutia watu wengi wakiwemo wa...

1. Knowledge of the incidents, events, circumstances, and condi­tions of people living in the past in relation to the present conditions and circumstances. All situations, conditions, events, and episodes which take place belong to the present, t...

1. Knowledge of the incidents, events, circumstanc...

This is the first part of Martyr Murtada Mutahhari's book Society and History (Jami`e wa tarikhh), which is itself a part of his important work Introduction to the Islamic World Outlook (Muqaddameh'i bar jahan bini ye Islami) 1 In this section on so...

This is the first part of Martyr Murtada Mutahhari...

Dr. Miyad was half asleep when the telephone rang. She struggled between sleep's powerful domination and her duty to answer the phone. It rang insistently until she finally answered it, as she knew she must. It was after mid night. An urgent case on...

Dr. Miyad was half asleep when the telephone rang....

In the name of Allah, the Most High. Salawat upon Muhammad, the last of the Prophets, and his immaculate progeny. Six months after my release from the fateful detention in Iraq under Saddam's Ba'thist regime, I sat down to write my experience. When ...

In the name of Allah, the Most High. Salawat upon ...

In the Name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful People have increasingly been, for quite some time, demanding to get the series of “The Islamic School” out, and the dear readers have been insisting that I must issue a new series for them....

In the Name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most ...

If you would be a real seeker of truth, You must at least once in your life doubt, As far as possible, all things. “Discours de la Méthode”; Descartes. 1637. The Sleepwalkers Khalid Gibran, the well known Lebanese poet and artist of the e...

If you would be a real seeker of truth, You must ...

According to Mulla Sadra’s theory of necessity, a determined causal law governs the relationship between cause and effect, a relationship that encompasses human behavior. There is no contrast between this determined causal law and free will. This the...

According to Mulla Sadra’s theory of necessity, a ...

In the history of Greek medicine three main schools were notable, namely the empiricists (Ashab al-Tajarib), the dogmatists (Ashab al-Qiyas), and the methodists (Ashab al-Hiyal). Different opinions and arguments of these sects can best be seen in two...

In the history of Greek medicine three main school...

Shaykh Ja'far Subhani published this essay in Arabic in the third volume of a series of four volumes. The four Volumes are titled “Letters and Essays: Researches on the subjects of Philosophy, Theology, Law, Jurisprudence and Society.” The edition co...

Shaykh Ja'far Subhani published this essay in Arab...

The third cause of the growth of materialist tendencies was the inadequacy of certain social and political concepts. In the history of political philosophy we find that when certain social and political ideas were propounded in the West and the issue...

The third cause of the growth of materialist tende...

Another example of the inadequacy of Western philosophy is to imagine the concept of eternity of matter to be incompatible with faith in God, while in fact there is no such logical implication between this view and denial of God. Rather the divine ph...

Another example of the inadequacy of Western philo...

The second reason of importance in the large-scale inclination towards materialism in the West lies in the inadequacy of its philosophical ideas. In fact, that which is called 'divine philosophy' (hikmat al-ilahi) is in a very backward state in the W...

The second reason of importance in the large-scale...

What appears here is a translation of 'Ilal e gerayesh beh maddigari, 8th edition (Qum: Intesharat e Sadra, 1375 H. Sh.) There is a long introduction, dated rajab 1, 1398 H by the author written for the 8th edition of the book titled 'Materialism in ...

What appears here is a translation of 'Ilal e gera...