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Reading List A lifelong, aspirational list

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This is a lifelong aspirational list. It is curated with my current interests and with an intent. Only completed ones are struck through.

Referenced in غَور

  • Welcoming Robots into the Moral CircleJohn DanaherCritique of Ethical Behaviourism
  • The Difference of Man and the Difference It MakesMortimer J. AdlerAI'vory Towers
  • Reasons and PersonsDerek ParfitAI & The Repugnant Conclusion
  • Well-Being and Fair DistributionMatthew AdlerAI & The Repugnant Conclusion
  • Seeing Like a StateJames C. ScottAI: Clean vs Messy
  • Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its ConsequencesBowker & StarAI: Clean vs Messy
  • A Theory of JusticeJohn RawlsCorporations as Kantian Subjects
  • Collective and Corporate ResponsibilityPeter A. FrenchCorporations as Kantian Subjects

Literature & Poetry

  • MasnaviRumi
  • Bal-e-JibrilAllama Iqbal
  • Asrar-e-KhudiAllama IqbalSecrets of the Self
  • Javid NamaAllama IqbalBook of Eternity
  • Tanha TanhaAhmad Faraz
  • Pehli BarishNasir Kazmi
  • Hope WantedAntonis Samarakis

Philosophy

  • Theory and Reality: Intro to Philosophy of SciencePeter Godfrey-Smith
  • CoercionAlan Wertheimer
  • The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas S. Kuhn
  • Islam and EvolutionShoaib Ahmed Malik
  • Blackwell's Companion to Natural TheologyWLC & Pruss
  • Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
  • Mind and CosmosThomas Nagel
  • Reasons and PersonsDerek Parfit
  • The Difference of Man and the Difference It MakesMortimer J. Adler
  • Welcoming Robots into the Moral CircleJohn Danaher
  • Well-Being and Fair DistributionMatthew Adler
  • Collective and Corporate ResponsibilityPeter A. French

Epistemology

  • Testimony: A Philosophical StudyC.J. Coady
  • Against MethodPaul Feyerabend
  • ObjectivityLorraine Daston
  • Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgenstein(won't even try)
  • The Blue and Brown BooksLudwig Wittgenstein
  • The Order of ThingsMichel Foucault
  • The Claim of ReasonStanley Cavell
  • Must We Mean What We Say?Stanley Cavell
  • The Threefold CordHilary Putnam
  • Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its ConsequencesBowker & Star

Political Theory

  • The Impossible StateWael B. Hallaq
  • Formations of the SecularTalal Asad
  • Manufacturing ConsentChomsky & Herman
  • RepublicPlato
  • Islam as a Political ReligionShabbir Akhtar
  • Seeing Like a StateJames C. Scott
  • A Theory of JusticeJohn Rawls
  • PalestineJoe Sacco

Islamic Spirituality

  • Love, Intimacy and ContentmentImam Al-Ghazali
  • On Being HumanDr. Osman Latiff
  • Divine PerfectionDr. Osman Latiff
  • The Alchemy of Happiness (Kimiya-yi Sa'adat)Al-Ghazali

Islamic Philosophy

  • Deliverance from Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal)Al-Ghazali
  • The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahafut al-Falasifah)Al-Ghazali
  • The Incoherence of the Incoherence (Tahafut al-Tahafut)Ibn Rushd
  • Refinement of CharacterIbn Miskawayh

Aqeedah (Creed)

  • Aqeedah al-TahawiyyahImam al-Tahawi
  • Al-Fiqh al-AkbarImam Abu Hanifa
  • Al-Aqidah al-WasitiyyahIbn Taymiyyah
  • Kitab al-IrshadImam al-Juwayni
  • Kitab al-ImanIbn Taymiyyah
  • Dar' Ta'arud al-'Aql wa'l-NaqlIbn TaymiyyahReason & Revelation
  • Al-Radd 'ala al-MantiqiyyinIbn TaymiyyahRefutation of the Logicians
  • Minhaj al-Sunnah al-NabawiyyahIbn Taymiyyah
  • Al-IstiqamahIbn Taymiyyah

Fiqh & Usul

  • Fiqh al-SunnahSayyid Sabiq
  • Reliance of the Traveller (Umdat al-Salik)Ibn Naqib al-Misri
  • Bidayat al-MujtahidIbn Rushd
  • Al-MughniIbn Qudama
  • Al-RisalaImam al-Shafi'iUsul al-Fiqh foundation
  • Al-MustasfaAl-Ghazali

Theism

  • Quran Majeed
  • Reason Can Lead to GodJoshua Rasmussen
  • Life of Muhammad (SAWS)Martin Lings
  • Tafsir Ibn KathirIbn Kathir
  • The Experience of GodDavid Bentley Hart
  • Why Does the World Exist?Jim Holt
  • The Devil's DelusionDavid Berlinski

Liberalism & Secularism

  • There Is No Such Thing as Free SpeechStanley Fish
  • The Impossibility of Religious FreedomWinnifred Sullivan
  • The Disenchantment of Secular DiscourseSteven D. Smith
  • Islam in LiberalismJoseph Massad

Advanced Mathematics

  • How to Prove ItDaniel Velleman
  • Mathematical ProofsChartrand
  • Measure, Integration & Real AnalysisSheldon Axler
  • Probability and MeasurePatrick Billingsley
  • Combinatorics and Graph TheoryHarris & Hirst
  • Concrete MathematicsGraham & Knuth
  • Information TheoryGilbert Strang