Muhammad U Faruque
Biographic Data
| ID | 460324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muhammad U Faruque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muhammad U |
| FAMILY NAME | Faruque |
| SIGNATURE | FARUQUE M U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8138-4787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philosophy of education as pluriversal
Reintroducing Philosophy
Toward a Neuro-ethics in Islamic Philosophy
The Islamic Secular by Sherman A. Jackson (review)
Life after life
The purpose of this article is twofold: first, I will reconstruct Mullā Ṣadrā's complex arguments for the soul's immortality based on its immaterial nature. Second and finally, I will briefly probe and assess various epistemological and metaphysical objections against Ṣadrā's immaterialist conception of the soul. Ṣadrā contends that our bodily death marks an awakening to the reality of our consciousness on the plane of the imaginal realm (the ima…
From the Divine to the Human
Charles Taylor and the Invention of Modern Inwardness
Philosophers such as Charles Taylor have claimed that selfhood is a distinctly modern phenomenon, associated with inwardness, inner depths, and creativity. In this conception, selfhood is defined in terms of “radical reflexivity”, which saw its emergence with the likes of Descartes. Thus, according to Taylor, it is only with modern people that we see the appearance of selfhood and subjectivity, whereas premoderns did not have a notion of the self…
The Crisis of Modern Subjectivity
Despite the numerous books and articles on the thought and legacy of Muḥammad Iqbāl (d. 1938), hardly any significant academic studies exist that critically evaluate his philosophical thought in relation to his Muslim predecessors. The present article thus intervenes in the field of Iqbāl studies by challenging current scholarly assessments that present Iqbāl as a heroic reformer of Islam. This article is composed of three parts. It begins by pro…
Eternity Made Temporal
This study investigates the Deobandī engagement with classical Sufi thought through the writings of one of modern South Asia’s most influential Sufi thinkers, namely Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī (d. 1943). The article brings to focus Thānavī’s contributions to South Asian Sufism by showing how he sought to preserve, defend, revive, and disseminate classical Sufi teachings in a climate of social reform. The article documents how Deobandī scholars such as T…
Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna
Reviewed by: Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the Unknown by Mohammad Azadpur Muhammad U. Faruque (bio) Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the Unknown Mohammad Azadpur New York: Routledge, 2020. Viii + 128 Pages. Recent years have witnessed a revival, and even a defense, of traditional, non-modern epistemologies. One thinks of Robert Pasnau’s After Certainty, which shows what is wrong with contemporary epistemology by arguing that…
Mullā Ṣadrā on the Problem of Natural Universals
This study investigates the problem of the natural universal ( kullī ṭabīʿī ) in the works of Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1640). The problem of universals made its way into Arabic/Islamic philosophy via its Greek sources, and was transformed into the problem of natural universals by Avicenna. Weighing in on this problem, Ṣadrā reinterprets the nature of natural universals against the backdrop of his doctrine of “the primacy of being.” As he argues, a natural…
Sufism contra Shariah? Shāh Walī Allāh’s Metaphysics of Waḥdat al-Wujūd
This study analyzes the contested relationship between Sufism and the Shariah and Shāh Walī Allāh’s problematic of waḥdat al-wujūd . Some Sufis describe Sufism or taṣawwuf as the inner reality of the Shariah while others see it as the inward dimension of Islam. Drawing on a variety of classical sources, Walī Allāh stresses that accepting waḥdat al-wujūd does not mean one is being less faithful to the tenets of the Shariah, as it safeguards God’s …
Does God Create Evil? A Study of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Exegesis of Sūrat al-falaq
The present piece of research analyses Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s exegesis of Sūrat al-falaq in his voluminous tafsīr, Mafātīḥ al-ghayb. In his exegesis of Sūrat al-falaq, al-Rāzī draws on the insights of philosophical Sufism (ʿirfān), philosophy, and science in general, in addition to the transmitted (naqlī) sciences. The focus of al-Rāzī’s exegesis in this chapter is the problem of evil. According to al-Rāzī, evil is found only in the sublunar worl…
Mullā Ṣadrā and the Project of Transcendent Philosophy
In this study, we have endeavored to elucidate the 'project' of Mullā Ṣadrā's transcendent philosophy (al-ḥikma al-mutaʿāliya), an expression that Ṣadrā himself saw fit to describe his philosophical works. The meaning and method of Ṣadrā's transcendent philosophy, which inform his unique philosophical positions, can be better understood when it is placed against the backdrop of discursive philosophy (ḥikma baḥthiyya) of the Muslim peripatetics (a…
The Proofs of Prophecy, by Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī (A Paralel English-Arabic text translated, introduced, and annotated by Tarif Khalidi)
The Proofs of Prophecy, by Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, (A Paralel English-Arabic text translated, introduced, and annotated by Tarif Khalidi (Islamic Translation Series “ al-Ḥikma), (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2011), xxiii + 266 + 243 (arabic text) pp., ISBN: 978-0-8425-2787-3, $39.95 (hb) (First paragraph) This book introduces the reader to one of the most intriguing debates that took place between two important thinkers of the tenth ce…
Mullā Ṣadrā and Eschatology
In many ways, the writings of Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1640) mark a new horizon in the history of Islamic philosophy, and he is rightly credited with being the founder of a highly influential intellectual p
The Proofs of Prophecy, by Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī (A Paralel English-Arabic text translated, introduced, and annotated by Tarif Khalidi)
The Proofs of Prophecy, by Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, (A Paralel English-Arabic text translated, introduced, and annotated by Tarif Khalidi (Islamic Translation Series “ al-Ḥikma), (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2011), xxiii + 266 + 243 (arabic text) pp., ISBN: 978-0-8425-2787-3, $39.95 (hb) (First paragraph) This book introduces the reader to one of the most intriguing debates that took place between two important thinkers of the tenth ce…
Mullā Ṣadrā and Eschatology
In many ways, the writings of Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1640) mark a new horizon in the history of Islamic philosophy, and he is rightly credited with being the founder of a highly influential intellectual p
Sufism contra Shariah? Shāh Walī Allāh’s Metaphysics of Waḥdat al-Wujūd
This study analyzes the contested relationship between Sufism and the Shariah and Shāh Walī Allāh’s problematic of waḥdat al-wujūd . Some Sufis describe Sufism or taṣawwuf as the inner reality of the Shariah while others see it as the inward dimension of Islam. Drawing on a variety of classical sources, Walī Allāh stresses that accepting waḥdat al-wujūd does not mean one is being less faithful to the tenets of the Shariah, as it safeguards God’s …
Does God Create Evil? A Study of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Exegesis of Sūrat al-falaq
The present piece of research analyses Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s exegesis of Sūrat al-falaq in his voluminous tafsīr, Mafātīḥ al-ghayb. In his exegesis of Sūrat al-falaq, al-Rāzī draws on the insights of philosophical Sufism (ʿirfān), philosophy, and science in general, in addition to the transmitted (naqlī) sciences. The focus of al-Rāzī’s exegesis in this chapter is the problem of evil. According to al-Rāzī, evil is found only in the sublunar worl…
Mullā Ṣadrā and the Project of Transcendent Philosophy
In this study, we have endeavored to elucidate the 'project' of Mullā Ṣadrā's transcendent philosophy (al-ḥikma al-mutaʿāliya), an expression that Ṣadrā himself saw fit to describe his philosophical works. The meaning and method of Ṣadrā's transcendent philosophy, which inform his unique philosophical positions, can be better understood when it is placed against the backdrop of discursive philosophy (ḥikma baḥthiyya) of the Muslim peripatetics (a…
Mullā Ṣadrā on the Problem of Natural Universals
This study investigates the problem of the natural universal ( kullī ṭabīʿī ) in the works of Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1640). The problem of universals made its way into Arabic/Islamic philosophy via its Greek sources, and was transformed into the problem of natural universals by Avicenna. Weighing in on this problem, Ṣadrā reinterprets the nature of natural universals against the backdrop of his doctrine of “the primacy of being.” As he argues, a natural…
Eternity Made Temporal
This study investigates the Deobandī engagement with classical Sufi thought through the writings of one of modern South Asia’s most influential Sufi thinkers, namely Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī (d. 1943). The article brings to focus Thānavī’s contributions to South Asian Sufism by showing how he sought to preserve, defend, revive, and disseminate classical Sufi teachings in a climate of social reform. The article documents how Deobandī scholars such as T…
Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna
Reviewed by: Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the Unknown by Mohammad Azadpur Muhammad U. Faruque (bio) Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the Unknown Mohammad Azadpur New York: Routledge, 2020. Viii + 128 Pages. Recent years have witnessed a revival, and even a defense, of traditional, non-modern epistemologies. One thinks of Robert Pasnau’s After Certainty, which shows what is wrong with contemporary epistemology by arguing that…
Charles Taylor and the Invention of Modern Inwardness
Philosophers such as Charles Taylor have claimed that selfhood is a distinctly modern phenomenon, associated with inwardness, inner depths, and creativity. In this conception, selfhood is defined in terms of “radical reflexivity”, which saw its emergence with the likes of Descartes. Thus, according to Taylor, it is only with modern people that we see the appearance of selfhood and subjectivity, whereas premoderns did not have a notion of the self…
The Crisis of Modern Subjectivity
Despite the numerous books and articles on the thought and legacy of Muḥammad Iqbāl (d. 1938), hardly any significant academic studies exist that critically evaluate his philosophical thought in relation to his Muslim predecessors. The present article thus intervenes in the field of Iqbāl studies by challenging current scholarly assessments that present Iqbāl as a heroic reformer of Islam. This article is composed of three parts. It begins by pro…
From the Divine to the Human
Toward a Neuro-ethics in Islamic Philosophy
The Islamic Secular by Sherman A. Jackson (review)
Life after life
The purpose of this article is twofold: first, I will reconstruct Mullā Ṣadrā's complex arguments for the soul's immortality based on its immaterial nature. Second and finally, I will briefly probe and assess various epistemological and metaphysical objections against Ṣadrā's immaterialist conception of the soul. Ṣadrā contends that our bodily death marks an awakening to the reality of our consciousness on the plane of the imaginal realm (the ima…
Reintroducing Philosophy
Philosophy of education as pluriversal
Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Theology (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · Islam (8 works) · Islamic Thought and Society Studies (7 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works)