Scholarship

The texts reach us through people: editors, translators, commentators and teachers, and the institutes that keep the work going. This is a directory of them, each in their own words, with links to their pages and books and to the texts here that their work touches.

Inclusion is not endorsement, and none of those listed has endorsed this site. Several settings are represented: academic scholarship, the Traditionalist school, Ismaili scholarship and traditional learning. Each entry describes them in their own words, from their own pages, with the date it was checked; where a setting's claims are debated, they are graded as on the rest of the site. No rankings, no reviews.

People
22 scholars and teachers who translated, edited or studied the texts in the reader, or whose work bears on them.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr · William C. Chittick · Sachiko Murata · Muhammad U. Faruque · Joseph E. B. Lumbard · Mohammed Rustom …
Institutes and living traditions
7 institutes, societies and presses where these texts are studied and published today.
Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies · Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society (MIAS) · The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) · Zaytuna College …
Sources
Every edition, manuscript, digital text, dictionary and translation the site uses, with its licence, text by text.