The Book of Reason is a collection of Mohsen Kadivar’s papers on philosophy and theology written and published in various periodicals between 1992 and 1995. The 24 papers comprising this book are classified into four sections: analytical papers on philosophy and theology (over half of the book), bibliographies on descriptive philosophy, brief descriptive papers on philosophy and theology, and interviews on philosophy and theology. The Book of Reason portrays the concerns of the writer over a period of four years that make up the first stage of his attempts...

 Does political thought in Islam or political thought and Shiite fiqh call for a unified theory on state or can there be various theories based on authentic criteria of fiqh? This book sets out to seek an answer to this question and aims to establish the fact that numerous theories have been proposed by Shiite faqihs – especially in recent times – concerning state, ruling, and administering a society. The diversity of these theories proves that there is no one single theory of state that can be considered as the...

   This book contains information on all publications on rational sciences in Farsi and Arabic (printed both in and outside Iran) since the emergence of the printing industry up to March 1997. European and Asian languages on two translations from Farsi and Arabic and the bibliographies and encyclopedias have been added in this book. Publications include the five categories of books, papers (in periodicals and collections), theses and dissertations, studies conducted by research institutions, and pamphlets (presented in seminars or published in small circulations). Rational sciences denote classical and modern…