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The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 795-813, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between romantic love and polyamory. Our central question is whether traditional norms of monogamy can be excised from romantic love so as to harmonize with polyamory's ethical dimensions (as we construe them).
Michael Milona, Lauren Weindling
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From Combination to Individuation: A Sufi–Sadrian Case for the Metaphysical Possibility of Strong AI

Religions
This paper argues that Sufi–Sadrian metaphysics makes strong artificial intelligence metaphysically intelligible while resisting both reductive functionalism and indiscriminate panpsychism.
Enis Doko
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The Concept of Divine Revelation According to Ibn Sînâ and Al-Ghazālī: A Comparative Analysis

Religions
This article examines the conceptions of divine revelation held by two prominent figures in Islamic thought, Ibn Sīnā and Al-Ghazālī, through a comparative lens within the context of metaphysical and epistemological processes.
İbrahim Halil Erdoğan, Sema Eryücel
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The Sufi Doctrine of Man:Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s Metaphysical Anthropology

, 2014
In The Sufi Doctrine of Man, Richard Todd examines the life and thought of Ibn 'Arabī's chief disciple, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (13th century C.E.). Making use of manuscript sources, he analyzes and contextualizes Qūnawī's esoteric vision of the nature and
Todd, Richard; id_orcid
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique

The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.
Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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The monotheism of actions (tawhid al-af‘al) in the works by Abd Al-Rahman Jami [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
The thesis that God is the only active agent is not less important for Islamic monotheism then the declaration of His unity. It rises the question of the human actions’ status as well.
Andrey Lukashev
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Enriching systems practice with African perspectives

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 717-725, September/October 2024.
Abstract This paper follows an autoethnographic approach that seeks to give a practitioner's reflection by exploring the intersection between African philosophies, particularly the concepts of Ubuntu and Ukama, and the practice of systems thinking. It raises concern about the absence of an African perspective in the discourse on mainstream systems ...
Samuel Gikaru Njenga, Liezel Massyn
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شهود الأحدية عند ابن عطاء الله؛ مفهومها ولواحقها ودورها في تأسيس ميتافيزيقا العلوم الكونية

Tsaqafah, 2018
This paper will analyse the concept of “Syuhûd al-Aḥadiyah” according to Ibn Athaillah al-Sakandary and its urgency as a basic assumption of Islamic science.
Moh Isom Mudin
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LA DIMENSIONE METAFISICA DEL SUFISMO:UNO SGUARDO SULL’OPERA DI ALBERTO VENTURA

, 2021
Riassunto: L’analisi dello sviluppo del Il Sufismo ha svolto un ruolo di prim’ordine all’interno delle società islamiche sia da un punto di vista della religiosità popolare sia da un punto di vista sociale.
Leccese, Francesco Alfonso
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism

Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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