Category: Pre-Islamic

Pre Islamic Arabian Thought by Shaikh Inayatullah , M.A Ph.D., Formerly, Professor of Arabic, University of the Panjab, Lahore (Pakistan) In the present chapter, we are concerned only with the people of Arabia who lived in [..]

Alexandrio Syriac Thought by C.A Qadir A THE NEO ‑PYTHAGOREANS The great conquering sweep of Alexander the Great eastwards not only destroyed the old, intense and narrow life of the self‑contained Greek City­ States but [..]

Greek Thought by M.M Sharif A THE EARLY BEGINNINGS The thinking of the early Greeks, like that of all ancient peoples, Egyptians, Babylonians, Hittites, Phoenicians, and Indians, was more mythological and speculative, more poetical and [..]

Pre-Islamic Iranian Thought by Alessandro Bausani, Ph.D, Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Naples (Italy) A A summary sketch of the philosophical thought of pre‑Islamic Iran is both a difficult and an easy task [..]

Pre-Islamic Chinese Thought by Howard F. Didsbury, Jr., M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Newark State College, Union, New Jersey and Adjunct Professor at the American University, Washington D.C (U.S.A) In the present chapter we shall attempt [..]

Pre-Islamic Indian Thought by C.A Qadir, M.A, Professor of Philosophy, Government College, Lahore (Pakistan) Maurice Bloomfield says paradoxically in The Religion of the Rig‑Veda that “Indian religion begins before its arrival in India.” [1] By this he means to imply [..]