Orange Sky Project

7. Arabic Thought and Its Place in History by De Lacy O’Leary Price: 2.98$

From Forward by the Author

It is the effort of the following pages to trace the transmission of Hellenistic thought through the medium of Muslim philosophers and Jewish thinkers who lived in Muslim surroundings, to show how this thought, modified as it passed through a period of development in the Muslim community and itself modifying Islamic ideas, was brought to bear upon the culture of mediæval Latin Christendom. So greatly had it altered in external form during the centuries of its life apart, that it seemed a new type of intellectual life and became a disturbing factor which diverted Christian philosophy into new lines and tended to disintegrate the traditional theology of the Church, directly leading up to the Renascence which gave the death-blow to mediæval culture: so little had it altered in real substance that it used the same text-books and treated very much the same problems already current in the earlier scholasticism which had developed independently in Latin Christendom. It will be our effort so to trace the history of mediæval Muslim thought as to show the elements which it had in common with Christian teaching and to account for the points of divergence.

Table of Contents

I THE SYRIAC VERSION OF HELLENISM
II THE ARAB PERIOD
III THE COMING OF THE ‘ABBASIDS
IV THE TRANSLATORS
V THE MU‘TAZILITES
VI THE EASTERN PHILOSOPHERS
VII SUFISM
VIII ORTHODOX SCHOLASTICISM
IX THE WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
X THE JEWISH TRANSMITTORS
XI INFLUENCE OF THE ARABIC PHILOSOPHERS ON LATIN SCHOLASTICISM
CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE



6. The Shah Namah: The Epic of Kings (with Active TOC) by HAKIM ABOL-GHASEM FERDOWSI TOOSI Price: 1.99$

The Shahnameh or The Epic of Kings is one of the definite classics of the world. It tells hero tales of ancient Persia. The contents and the poet’s style in describing the events takes the reader back to the ancient times and makes he/she sense and feel the events. Ferdowsi worked for thirty years to finish this masterpiece.

An important feature of this work is that during the period that Arabic language was known as the main language of science and literature, Ferdowsi used only Persian in his masterpiece. As Ferdowsi himself says “Persian language is revived by this work”.

This is the translation of The Epic of Shahnameh Ferdowsi by Helen Zimmern.

Table of Contents:

THE SHAHS OF OLD
FERIDOUN
ZAL
ZAL AND RUDABEH
RUSTEM
THE MARCH INTO MAZINDERAN
KAI KAOUS COMMITTETH MORE FOLLIES
RUSTEM AND SOHRAB
SAIAWUSH
THE RETURN OF KAI KHOSRAU
FIROUD
THE VENGEANCE OF KAI KHOSRAU
BYZUN AND MANIJEH
THE DEFEAT OF AFRASIYAB
THE PASSING OF KAI KHOSRAU
ISFENDIYAR
RUSTEM AND ISFENDIYAR
THE DEATH OF RUSTEM

3. The Enclosed Garden of the Truth: The Hadiqatu’ l-Haqiqat Price: 1.99$

Third book of Orange Sky Project,  The Enclosed Garden of the Truth: The Hadiqatu’ l-Haqiqat by HAKIM ABU’ L-MAJD MAJDUD SANA’I OF GHAZNA a.k.a. Sana’i is published on Kindle Store today. This is the first published Kindle edition of this book in the world.

This title is an attempt at a presentation of a part of Sana’i's most famous work, which, it is hoped may serve to give an idea of his manner of thought not only to Oriental scholars, but also to non-Orientalists who may be interested in the mysticism of Persia.