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 CircleCritique of Ethical Behaviourism
- The Difference of Man and the Difference It MakesAI'vory Towers
- Reasons and PersonsAI & The Repugnant Conclusion
- Well-Being and Fair DistributionAI & The Repugnant Conclusion
- Seeing Like a StateAI: Clean vs Messy
- Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its ConsequencesAI: Clean vs Messy
- A Theory of JusticeCorporations as Kantian Subjects
- Collective and Corporate ResponsibilityCorporations as Kantian Subjects
Literature & Poetry
- Masnavi
- Bal-e-Jibril
- Asrar-e-KhudiSecrets of the Self
- Javid NamaBook of Eternity
- Tanha Tanha
- Pehli Barish
- Hope Wanted
Philosophy
- Theory and Reality: Intro to Philosophy of Science
- Coercion
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Islam and Evolution
- Blackwell's Companion to Natural Theology
- Critique of Pure Reason
- Mind and Cosmos
- Reasons and Persons
- The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes
- Welcoming Robots into the Moral Circle
- Well-Being and Fair Distribution
- Collective and Corporate Responsibility
Epistemology
- Testimony: A Philosophical Study
- Against Method
- Objectivity
- Philosophical Investigations(won't even try)
- The Blue and Brown Books
- The Order of Things
- The Claim of Reason
- Must We Mean What We Say?
- The Threefold Cord
- Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
Political Theory
- The Impossible State
- Formations of the Secular
- Manufacturing Consent
- Republic
- Islam as a Political Religion
- Seeing Like a State
- A Theory of Justice
- Palestine
Islamic Spirituality
- Love, Intimacy and Contentment
- On Being Human
- Divine Perfection
- The Alchemy of Happiness (Kimiya-yi Sa'adat)
Islamic Philosophy
- Deliverance from Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal)
- The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahafut al-Falasifah)
- The Incoherence of the Incoherence (Tahafut al-Tahafut)
- Refinement of Character
Aqeedah (Creed)
- Aqeedah al-Tahawiyyah
- Al-Fiqh al-Akbar
- Al-Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah
- Kitab al-Irshad
- Kitab al-Iman
- Dar' Ta'arud al-'Aql wa'l-NaqlReason & Revelation
- Al-Radd 'ala al-MantiqiyyinRefutation of the Logicians
- Minhaj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah
- Al-Istiqamah
Fiqh & Usul
- Fiqh al-Sunnah
- Reliance of the Traveller (Umdat al-Salik)
- Bidayat al-Mujtahid
- Al-Mughni
- Al-RisalaUsul al-Fiqh foundation
- Al-Mustasfa
Theism
- Quran Majeed
- Reason Can Lead to God
- Life of Muhammad (SAWS)
- Tafsir Ibn Kathir
- The Experience of God
- Why Does the World Exist?
- The Devil's Delusion
Liberalism & Secularism
- There Is No Such Thing as Free Speech
- The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
- The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
- Islam in Liberalism
Advanced Mathematics
- How to Prove It
- Mathematical Proofs
- Measure, Integration & Real Analysis
- Probability and Measure
- Combinatorics and Graph Theory
- Concrete Mathematics
- Information Theory