“No god but God” is a text written by Iranian-American Muslim scholar Reza Aslan. The book describes the history of Islam and argues for a liberal interpretation of the religion. He blames Western imperialism and the misinterpretations of Islamic law by past scholars for the current controversies within Islam, questioning the “clash of civilizations” thesis...

Description Jesus Jew, Riccardo Calimani, Milan 1990, Mondadori Very well structured study of the figure of Jesus, born a Jew and circumcised under the Law on the eighth day. In this magnificent book its Judaism is rediscovered in a search that brings man, the Nazarene, into the historical context. A reflection on the message of...

The City of GOD from original latin De Civitate Dei (full title: De Civitate Dei contra Paganos, translated in English as The City of God Against the Pagans) is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo (Augustine of Ippona) in the early 5th century AD. The book was in response to allegations...

Description Who are the Angels? What links exist between Angels, prophetic visions and returns from the dead? What importance do these phenomena have for us today? A quirky book that is not only an accurate synthesis of centuries of religion and spirituality, but also a provocative journey through the history of cultural criticism. This book...

Description The Vitae Patrum (literally Lives of the Fathers, also called Lives of the Desert Fathers) is an encyclopedia of hagiographical writings on the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers of early Christianity. The bulk of the original texts date from the third and fourth centuries. The Lives that were originally written in Greek were translated...

Yale University Press, 1990 – 419 pages Kabbalah: New prospectives is the prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism. Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish mysticism, the relation between mystical and historical...

Metaphysical Meditations, is a treatise by Descartes in which he wants to demonstrate the existence of GOD and the immortality of the Soul (and in fact in Latin the full title is: Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur). Published for the first time in Latin in 1641, the book...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright of the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. De Tranquillitate Animi (The tranquility of the soul) is a Latin work of the philosopher in the form of a dialogue. A conversation and comparison...

Giordano Bruno (January or February 1548 – February 17, 1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist and hermetic occultist. Beginning in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denying several fundamental Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of...

The City of the Sun (Latin: Civitas Solis) is a philosophical work by the Dominican friar Thomas Campanella, written in Italian in 1602, shortly after Campanella’s imprisonment for heresy and sedition. A Latin version was written in 1613-1614 and published in Frankfurt in 1623. Synopsis The book is presented as a dialogue between “a Grand...

Introduction Kīmīyā-yi Sa’ādat (Persian: کیمیای سعادت English: The Alchemy of Happiness) is a book written by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, a Persian theologian, philosopher, and prolific Sunni Muslim author, often regarded as one of the greatest systematic and mystical thinkers in Islam. The Kimiya-yi Sa’ādat was written towards the end of his life...