The Canon · Volume IV

The Thought.

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Philosophy, ethics, values, and a thousand years of the scholarly tradition — the intellectual inheritance, from Balkh to Ghazna and beyond.

In gatheringEntries gathering

A volume in progress. Entries are gathered by hand, verified with scholars and elders, and published only once they can stand on their own. What is here is real; what is missing is coming.

The chapters

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This volume is being gathered. Its first entries are with our scholars and elders now.

ScopeWhat belongs in this volume.
Ideas
The concepts a culture thinks with — honor, dignity, patience, the guest as a trust.
The scholars
Avicenna, al-Biruni, and the tradition of learning they belonged to.
Sufi thought
The philosophy inside the poetry — what the reed was actually saying.
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