Islam, one of the world's great faiths, was born as a result of the revelation of the Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad (c. 570-632) in Arabia. A proper understanding of the Islamic present depends on an accurate knowledge of the way in which Islamic thought developed from medieval times onwards.
Islam developed a sophisticated theology and set of philosophical systems of its own. These owed something to the impact of Greek thought but became uniquely Islamic, because of the vital presence within that faith of the Qur'an. Islam soon
came into contact with Greek philosophy and science and a translation movement into Arabic began. The roles of Kason and Revelation, and the primacy which was to be given to one or the other, came to the fore. Problems which had also vexed
Christianity such as anthropomorphism, Free Will and predestination provided intellectual meat for Islamic thinkers while the mystical impulse, articulated in Islamic Sufism, imbued the writings of several of the theologians and philosophers
considered in these volumes. Taken together they constitute a golden period of Islamic debate and intellectual inquiry. The articles collected here reflect
that Islamic dynamic.
Volume I: Legacies, Translations and Prototypes
Volume II: Revelation and Reason
Volume III: Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism
Volume IV: Eclecticism, Illumination and Reform
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