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Letters to a Young Mormon

In simple but profound prose, Miller addresses the real beauty and real costs of trying to live a Mormon life in today’s world.

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Illuminating the Dead Sea Scrolls

Inside you’ll discover how the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal previously unknown psalms, restore a missing verse from Psalm 145, and describe a treasure worthy of Indiana Jones (the treasure has yet to be found).

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Metaphysical Penetrations

The present work’s focus on Şadrā’s gradational ontology provides a strong foundation for the reader to understand Şadrā’s other works and later texts by other philosophers working in the same field.

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The Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen, Volume 1

On the Medical Sects for Beginners; The Small Art of Medicine; On the Elements According to the Opinion of Hippocrates

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The Tree of Life

No image of eternal life is more powerful or persistent than the tree of life.

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Ephrem the Syrian – Select Poems

Arranged according to his concept of salvation history, this book will allow readers to further explore his poetry in both its original language and in a contemporary English translation.
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Theodore Abū Qurrah

This volume is the first English translation of nearly the complete corpus of Theodore Abū Qurrah’s works, with extensive notes on the Arabic and Greek texts.
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The Reformation of Morals

Under the title The Reformation of Morals, the tenth-century Syrian Orthodox scholar Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī offered encouragement to the effort to promote moral perfection.
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On Hemorrhoids

While not the first to write on this subject, Maimonides’s work bears his personal stamp with his emphasis on dietetics, which plays a primary role in so many of his other medical writings.
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Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 10–15

Because the original texts that Maimonides drew from have not survived, these aphorisms provide tantalizing clues about aspects of Galen’s thought that are otherwise unknown.

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Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 6–9

The second of six volumes, Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 6-9 provides tantalizing insights into the work of Galen and the world of medieval medicine.

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Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 1–5

Medical Aphorisms consists of approximately 1500 maxims compiled by Maimonides from the treatises of Galen, the renowned ancient Greek physician.

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On Asthma, Volume 2

Volume Two offers Gerrit Bos’s critical editions of all three surviving medieval Hebrew translations of Maimonides’ work.
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On Asthma

In true Galenic fashion, Maimonides stresses that a healthy lifestyle and diet are the most important preventative measures against chronic illness such as asthma.
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The Proofs of Prophecy

This fresh, vivid debate still holds excitement for modern readers who are interested not merely in medieval Islam but in Christian thought as well.
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Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought

Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam.
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Critique of Christian Origins

The Critique of Christian Origins contains a wealth of information on the ideological contours of Abd al-Jabbār’s time.
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The Physics of The Healing

While Avicenna’s Physics roughly follows the thought of Aristotle’s Physics, the work is hardly derivative.
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