This thesis was started at a time when Indonesia was in a turmoil of ideological camps, in which international peace and order could be endangered. The nationalists, according to one of their prominent leaders, Roeslan Abdulgani, are still in search…

This dissertation attempts at a systematic study of the life, personality and thought of the second-third/eighth-ninth century Persian Sufi (Muslim Mystic) Abu Yazid al-Bistami. Having first described and evaluated the source material, it discusses his life, personality and mystical doctrines…

This thesis represents the part that Kiyai Haji Ahmad Dahlan played in the Islamic modernist movement of the early twentieth century in Yogyakarta. It is concerned with his life and thought, and the establishment of the Muhammadiyah, a major non-political…

The contribution of this thesis to knowledge is that it is a test case of the lndian ideal 'unity in diversity' as proposed by an Indian Muslim, Humayun Kabir, to solve the problem of cultural identity of Indian Muslims in…

The theory of motion in Ibn Bajjah's philosophy is studied in this dissertation from three aspects: physical, psychical and metaphysical. Aside from the introduction the dissertation is divided into three major chapters corresponding to these three aspects. Ibn Bajjah's theory…

This study is intended to investigate the concept of pleasure as developed by Nasir-i Khusraw, a prominent Isma'ili philosopher and theologian of the fifth century hijrah. This concept seems to be one of the central themes of Nasir's thought system.…