The spirit of Muslim culture according to Muhammad Iqbal by Abdul Rahim, Adibah

“…Although he has deeply studied the Western thought, Iqbal's views on culture are essentially shaped by the teachings of the Qur'an. …”
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On the epistemology of postmodern spirituality by Dudley A. Schreiber

“…Deconstruction is presented as an apophatic moment in Western thought about �knowing� and �being� whilst postmodern neo-essentialism, though contextualised by antirealism and ambiguity, palpably suggests itself.…”
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Pure Spirits: Imperial Japanese Justice and Right-Wing Terrorists, 1878–1936 by Danny ORBACH

“…Though influenced by Western thought, this narrative was indigenous to Japan. …”
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Heidegger and Blumenberg on modernity by Teodor Negru

“…On one hand, from Heidegger's perspective, history should be understood as starting from how Western thought related to Being, which, in metaphysical thinking, took the form of the forgetfulness of Being. …”
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Hermeneutics of reason: the principle of common rationality as premise of understanding the Other(s) by Mihai Stelian Rusu

“…In proving the first thesis (the universality of reason), the paper contrasts Western thought, epitomized in scientific reason, with non-Western thinking patterns, expressed by ethno-sciences, magic rituals, and other knowledge practices. …”
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Entering the Ethical Space Between Epistemologies: A Step Toward Decolonizing the Heart and Mind by Jennifer Billman

“…Here I deconstruct Western thought to show how Aristotle and Descartes upheld an immaterial reality, with Descartes grounding all his understanding in revealed knowledge. …”
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Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu Answers Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences by SCOTT MORRISON

“…This article places in parallel Husserl’s stylised history of Western thought and Weltanschauung method with that of Davutoğlu’s Muslim worldview, in order to illuminate the latter’s putatively comprehensive interpretation of Islam, diagnosis of the ills of secularism, modernisation, and crisis of values he finds in Muslim societies; and his prescribed treatment for those ills: the privileging of ontology over epistemology, and the full unfolding of core theological concepts of revelation, monotheism, and prophecy. …”
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Oltre Enrico Rocchi. Cultura e storiografia dell’architettura militare per il XXI secolo by Piero Cimbolli Spagnesi

“…The most recent contributions of Western thought on the subject of military architecture are identified, which from the end of the Cold War onwards was in-tended in a much broader way than in the whole of the twentieth century starting right from the work of Rocchi. …”
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From Power-over to Power-to: Power Relations of Women in Hansberry's <i>A Raisin in the Sun</i> by José Roberto Saravia Vargas

“…Because of binary oppositions shaping Western thought, power has been traditionally understood as male domination or as an unevenly distributed social resource between genders. …”
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Being as Absolute <i>Beginning</i>: Metaphysical Considerations Regarding the Gifted Character of Being <i>Ex Nihilo</i> by Juliana Peiró Pérez

“…The metaphysical crisis that Western thought is going through—whose main sign is nihilism—can be overcome through an understanding of the finite being that, precisely understood as <i>ex nihilo</i>, excludes nothingness from itself. …”
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Thoreau’s Garden Politics (re-edition) by Antoine Traisnel

“…Notwithstanding plant theory’s claim that 19th century Western thought entirely disregarded the importance of plant life, Thoreau explicitly troubles the assumption that one has the “right” to kill and use certain plants for one’s benefit. …”
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Comparing Max Weber’s and Javad Tabatabaei’s Methodology to the Reason for the Backwardness of Ancient Iran by Hosein Roohani, Reza Mahmoud Oghli, Ali Mortazavi Emami Zavareh

“…Against his reductionist approach, he reduces all the crises of Iranian society to the lack of Western thought and rationality, Max Weber's methodology puts out that ideas and thoughts can only influence the society through relations, mediators and structures influence. …”
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Discourse on the Authority of Sunnah and Hadith in the Perspective of Daniel W. Brown by Maulana Iban Salda, Syamsul Rijal, Abdul Mugni, Taslim HM. Yasin

“…Islam in Western thought has a very bad brand image and relative image. …”
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Islam and Nationalism in the Thought of Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani by Ariff Aizuddin Azlan

“…Keywords: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Nationalism, Pan-Islamism, Social-unity, Western thought …”
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Tinjauan Kompatibilitas Konsep Moderasi Beragama Kementerian Agama Republik Indonesia Dengan Wasathiyatul Islam by Rohmadi Rohmadi, Jarman Arroisi, M. Kholid Muslih

“…The results of this study include: first, moderation is not the same as wasatiyah; secondly, Religious Moderation when placing itself as a counterradicalism in the view of Islamic wasatiyah has been at another extreme with the dominance of Western thought.…”
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Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences by Morrison, Scott

“…This article places in parallel Husserl’s stylised history of Western thought and Weltanschauung method with that of Davutoğlu’s Muslim worldview, in order to illuminate the latter’s putatively comprehensive interpretation of Islam, diagnosis of the ills of secularism, modernisation, and crisis of values he finds in Muslim societies; and his prescribed treatment for those ills: the privileging of ontology over epistemology, and the full unfolding of core theological concepts of revelation, monotheism, and prophecy. …”
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Piet Mondrian’s Intuitive Neo-Plastic Art and Zen Notion of Mu-shin by Fallahzadeh, Ali, Yousof, Ghulam Sarwar

“…Reviewing scholarly materials pertinent to prominent Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), one faces perplex interpretations of his essays based on Western thought such as Hegelism, Platonism, Neo-Platonism, and Theosophy. …”
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A Comparative Investigation into the Western and Islamic Approaches to Motivation: Towards Developing the Indigenous Knowledge by Jafar Torkzadeh, Fatemeh Zeinali

“…Thus, it can be said that a person trapped in the western thought often meets only material needs, while based on the Islamic teachings, a human being is not only a material phenomenon, also as the most respected creature, he/she has an excellent spiritual aspect that should be realized. …”
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A Chinese View on the Cultural Conditionality of Logic and Epistemology: Zhang Dongsun’s Intercultural Methodology by Jana Rošker

“…The present article focuses on his extraordinary ability to introduce Western thought in a way which was compatible with the specific methodology of traditional Chinese thought. …”
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The Carnal Specter: The Virtual Reality User Against Fragmentation by Giulia Rainoldi

“…Therefore, the user becomes herself part of the work of art, exposing the limits of the Cartesian dualisms dominating the Western thought and raising critical questions about traditional aesthetic categories. …”
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