What became of philosophy in the lands of the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the Mughals’ heirs as they collided with modernity? And how did thinkers from Istanbul to Tehran to Lahore reinvent their traditions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
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Coming September-October 2026, Philosophy in the Islamic World, Volume 4-2: 19th–20th Centuries: Türkiye, Iran, and South-Asia, edited by Anke von Kügelgen and Peter Adamson and translated by Gwendolin Goldbloom, completes the fourth installment of the comprehensive and unprecedented reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam, from its beginnings in the eighth century down to modern times.
Companion to the volume on the Arabic-speaking region, this sub-volume covers philosophy in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Iran, and Muslim South Asia—India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—during an era when philosophy was pursued at Islamic institutions and increasingly in Western-style universities, while also exerting an impact well beyond academia.
In each chapter, an international expert explores the teachings of individual philosophers, philosophical movements, and schools—including the continuation of Mullā Ṣadrā’s philosophy of being—alongside debates over cultural authenticity, political rule, gender, and other major issues, together with the glossary and indices for the entire fourth volume.
The English version of the relevant volume of the Ueberweg, the most authoritative German reference work on the history of philosophy, Philosophy in the Islamic World, Volume 4-2 appears in Brill’s Handbook of Oriental Studies series and updates the German original with references to the latest scholarly literature.
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