Educational
resources

General Islamic Worldview and Special Topics

• Fundamentals of Islamic Thought: God, Man and the Universe

  Shahīd Murtaḍa Muṭahharī al-islam.org

  This collection of essays covers topics regarding the relationship between humankind and faith, the implications of a monotheistic outlook on life, the role of philosophy in Islam, etc.

• The Philosophy of Islam

  Shahīd Muḥammad Beheshtī and Muḥammad Jawād Bahonar al-islam.org

  On the principles of religious thought and approach to life. It treats Islam as a spiritual tradition that has heavy social and intellectual impacts.

• Existence & the Fall: Spiritual Anthropology of Islam

  Ḥāmid Parsania islamic-college.ac.uk

  "The study continues by expounding the various interpretations of man and the universe in the stages of the Fall and culminates by addressing the plight of contemporary man and the difficulties of the modern anthropological perspective."

• Jihad and Shahadat: Struggle and Martyrdom in Islam

  Sayyid Maḥmūd Ṭaleqānī, Shahīd Murtaḍa Muṭahharī, Dr. Ali Shariati – Edited by Mehdi Abedi and Gary Legenhausen – Foreword by Mahmoud Ayoub drive.google.com

  "[T]he writings translated here are essential for an understanding of contemporary Shi’ite political thought, and for an understanding of the ideological developments which made possible the Islamic revolution in Iran.

  But these works have a worth beyond what we may learn from them about Iran, or Shi'ism or Islam. The questions raised in this volume about martyrdom, about struggle against oppression and the role of religion in this struggle, are questions which must be raised by all people."