Cover -- Contents -- Preface M. Aminrazavi -- List of Reprinted Works -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Contributors -- Prolegomenon S.H. Nasr -- PART I. EARLY PERSIAN PHILOSOPHY: ZOROASTRIAN THOUGHT -- Introduction M. Aminrazavi -- 1. The Original Creation (from Bundahišn) -- 2. Greater Bundahišn -- 3. The Answers of Manūskihar From Dādistān-i Dīnīk -- 4. Opinions of the Spirit of Wisdom From Dīnā-i Maīnog-i Khirad -- 5. Selected Readings -- 6. Exegesis of the Good Religion Dēnkard VI -- PART II. EARLY PHILOSOPHY: MANICHAEISM -- Introduction M. Aminrazavi -- 7. Central Principles (from the Kephalaia) -- PART III EARLY ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY: THE PERIPATETICS -- Introduction S.H. Nasr -- 8. Abu'l-'Abbās Muhammad Irānshahrī -- Introduction M. Aminrazavi -- The Ideas of Īrānshahrī -- 9. Abū Nast Fārābī -- Introduction S.H. Nasr -- A Pharaphrase of Aristotle's Analytica Posteriora (from Kitāb al-burhān) -- A Reconciliation of the Opinions of the two Sages, Divine Plato and Aristotle (From al-Kitāb al-jam' bayn ra'yay al-hakīmayn, Aflātūn al-ilāhī wa Aristū -- The Perfect State (from Mabādi' ārā' ahl al-madīnat al-fādilah) -- 10. Abu'l-Hasan 'Amirī -- Introduction S.H. Nasr -- Knowledge and the Religious Sciences (from al-I'lām bi manāqib al'Islām) -- On the Soul and its Fate (from al-Amad 'ala'l-abad) -- 11. Abū Sulaymān Sijistānī -- Introduction M. Aminrazavi -- Philosophical Treatises (Musannafāt) -- 12. Ibn Sīnā -- Introduction S.H. Nasr -- Metaphysics (from Dānish-nāmah-yi 'alā'ī) -- Creation Ex-Nihilo and Immediate Creation (from al-Ishārāt wa'l-tanbīhāt) -- On Theodicy and Providence I (from al-Shifā') -- On Theodicy and Providence II (from al-Ishārāt wa'l-tanbīhāt) -- On Time (from al-Shifā') -- The Stations of the Knowers (from al-Ishārāt wa'l-tanbīhāt) -- Living Son of the Awake (from Risālah Hayy ibn Yaqzān).

Introduction (from Mantiq al-mashraqiyyīn) -- 13. Abū 'Alī Ahmad ibn Muhammad Miskawayh -- Introduction S.H. Nasr -- Perennial Philosophy (Wisdom) (from al-Hikmat al-khālidah or Jāwīdān-khīrad) -- The Health of the Soul (from Tahdhīb al-akhlāq) -- 14. Bahmanyār Ibn Marzbān -- Introduction M. Aminrazavi -- Author's Foreword (from Kitāb al-tahsīl) -- PART IV. EARLY ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY: THE INDIPENDENT PHILOSOPHERS -- Introduction S.H. Nasr -- 15. Abū Bakr Muhammad Zakariyyā' Rāzī -- Introduction M. Aminrazavi -- On the Excellence and Praise of Reason (from al-Tibb al-rūhānī) -- The Book of the Philosophic Life (from al-Sīrat al-falsafiyyah) -- 16. Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Introduction S.H. Nasr -- The Belief of the Hindus in God (from Tahqīq mā li'l-Hind) -- Questions and Answers (from al-As'ilah wa'l-ajwibah) -- 17. 'Umar Khayyām -- Introduction M. Aminrazavi -- The Necessity of Contradiction, Free Will and Determinism (Darurat al-tadādd fi'l- 'ālam wa'l-jabr wa'l-baqā) -- Universals of Existence (Kulliyyāt-i wujūd) -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.