The Malay Exposition of Al-Sanusi’s Umm al-Barahin

by Kalam Research & Media | 13 Sep, 2017 | Books, Books (Malaysia), Islamic Analytic Theology, Publications, Research, Science

Available soon on: ISSI Malaysia Bookstore   This work attempts to give an insight into Umm al-Barahin authored by Yusuf al-Sanusi (d.940/1490), a famous North African scholar who was not only a theologian but also a pious sufi whose life was fully...

Al-Ghazzali’s Influence on Malay Thinkers: A Study of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Samad al-Palimbani

by Kalam Research & Media | 13 Sep, 2017 | Books, Books (Malaysia), Islamic Analytic Theology, Publications, Research, Science

Available soon on: ISSI Malaysia Bookstore   Dr. Megawati’s work is significant when viewed from the broader context of Malay-Islamic thought and civilization as a whole. Through her study of the life and works of ‘Abd al-Samad al-Palimbani, she has...

Critical Edition of Emin Shirwani’s (1626 AD) Commentary on Ghazali’s Foundations of Orthodox Belief (Arabic)

by Kalam Research & Media | 13 Sep, 2017 | Books, Islamic Analytic Theology, Publications, Research, Science

Available soon on: Jamalon   This is a critical edition of Shirwani’s commentary on one of Ghazali’s most read works, Qawa’id Al-‘Aqa’id, is a crucial post-classical kalam commentary. The eminent scholar Muhammed Emin Shirwani wrote this...

The Kalam Cosmological Argument and its Analytic Philosophy Debates (Arabic)

by Kalam Research & Media | 12 Sep, 2017 | Books, Publications, Research, Science

Available soon on: Jamalon This volume contains a critical set of papers by Western analytic philosophers translated into Arabic and commented on by two contemporary kalam scholars: Saeed Foudeh and Bilal Najjar. The essays translated in this work are Wes Morrison’s...

Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions

by Kalam Research & Media | 12 Sep, 2017 | Books, Publications, Research, Science

Available on: Amazon Occasionalism is commonly understood as a theory that ascribes all causal power to God, while treating cause-effect relations in nature as customary events or occasions determined by divine volition. Commonly misapprehended as originating in...

Two Treatises on Human Action (Arabic)

by Kalam Research & Media | 12 Sep, 2017 | Books, Publications, Research, Science

Available soon on: Jamalon One of the most fundamental cruces in Islamic scholastic theology (kalam) and philosophy is the problematic nature of human action, free will, and moral agency.  This book brings together two critical texts that tackle this crux by a...