John Walbridge
American Islamicist (born 1950)
About John Walbridge
Born 1950. John Walbridge is an American islamicist, philosopher of religion, historian of ideas, medical historian and university teacher.
John Walbridge is a scholar of Islamic philosophy and Islamic intellectual history. He is professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University.
Works God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason (2010) The Wisdom of the Mystic East: Suhrawardi and Platonic Orientalism (2001) The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks (2000) Sacred Acts, Sacred Space, Sacred Time (1996) The Science of Mystic Lights: Quṭb Al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the Illuminationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy (1992)
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