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Annotated Bibliography • 281in the Muslim world.Schuon, Frithjof. 1965. Lights on the Ancient Worlds. London: PerennialBooks. This is the English translation by Lord Northbourne ofSchuon’s Regards sur les mondes anciens.Setia, Adi. 2003. “Al-Attas’ Philosophy of Science: An Extended Outline.”Islam & Science, 1(2): 165–214.Sharif, M. M. 1963. A History of Muslim Philosophy. 2 vols. Karachi: RoyalBook Company. A major work on Islamic philosophy, containsbiographical and bibliographic details and life sketches of majorMuslim scholars.Shlomo, Pines. 1986. “What was Original in Arabic Science” in his Studiesin Arabic Versions of Greek Texts and in Mediaeval Science. Leiden: Brill,pp. 181–205.van Steenberghen, Fernand. 1955. Aristotle in the West. Translated byLeonard Johnston. Louvian: Nauwelaerts.Stenberg, Leif. 1996. The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim PositionsDeveloping an Islamic Modernity. Lund: Lund Studies in Historyof Religion. This book presents a systematic account of modernscholarship on Islam and science through developing a four-folddivision of the discourse.Suhrawardi, Shihab al-Din. Tr. 1999. Hikmat al-Ishraq. Translated byJohn Walbridge and Hossein Ziai as The Philosophy of Illumination.Prova: Brigham Young University Press. This is a new critical editionof the text of Suhrawardi’s magnus opus, Hikmat al-Ishraq. Thebi-lingual Arabic-English text is annotated and supplemented bycommentary and notes.As-Suyuti, Jalal al-Din. 1982. al-hay’a as-saniya fi’l hay’a as-sunniya.Translated by Anton M. Heinen. Beirut: Franz Steiner Verlag. Animportant work, this excellent critical edition with translation andcommentary by Anton M. Heinen traces as-Suyuti’s sources, givesbackground information on the cosmological tradition in Islam,comments on the nature of scientific enterprise in early centuries ofIslam, and provides a translation of as-Suyuti’s work along with theoriginal Arabic.