In Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the discourses about beauty, the arts, and sense perception that arose within classical Arab culture from pre-Islamic poetry and the Quran (sixth-seventh centuries CE) to the Alhambra palace in Granada (fourteenth century CE). He focuses on the contributions of such great thinkers as Ibn Ḥazm, Avempace, Ibn Ṭufayl, Averroes, Ibn ʻArabī, and Ibn Khaldūn in al-Andalus, and the Brethren of Purity, al-Tawḥīdī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Alhazen, and (...) al-Ghazālī in the East. The work also explores literary criticism, calligraphy, music, belles-lettres (adab), and erotic literature, and highlights the contribution of Arab humanism to shaping the field of Aesthetics in the West. (shrink)

Interpretive Commentary, with text, of Śaṅkarācārya's Nirvāṇadaśakam, Sanskrit philosophical poem on Advaita.

Hindu culture and political ethics in the character of Krishana, Hindu deity as decribed in Bhāgavatapurāṇa and Mahābhārata ; a study.

Festschrift in honor of Visvamūrti Śāstrī, born 1946, Sanskritist; comprises contributed articles on his life and works, Vedic and Sanskrit literature.

The book is mainly concerned with the problem of the logical analysis of hypothetical (conditional) statements.

Cultural boundaries in Islam based on Hadith (Islamic traditions).

Study on the fundamentals of Mimamsa philosophy.

Sanskrit text, with Hindi explanation, on Yoga philosophy; based on rare manuscript.

Study on Padarthadipika and Tarkapradipa, works on Vaiśeṣika and Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy by Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa; includes critical edited text.

On Vedanta; Sanskrit text with English translation and exhaustive explanation.

On the semantics of Vaiśeṣika philosophy.

Study on Rūpārūpavibhāga, Abhidhamma terminology by Buddhadatta.

Treatise, with autocommentary on Jaina philosophy.

Collection of Prakaraṇa text on the philosophy of Śvetambara, Jaina sect.