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What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims´ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Diagne explains the long history of philosophy in the Islamic world and its relevance to crucial issues of our own time.

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This is a remarkable and interesting book. Open to Reason is tremendously valuable on two levels: first, as an account of the place of philosophy in Muslim history; and, second, as a philosophical proposal of some depth and substance that could orient Muslims and others in understanding Islam today. Charles Taylor, author of A Secular Age

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne (PhD, Philosophy, Sorbonne) is Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of Bergson postcolonial: L´élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal (CNRS, 2011), which was awarded the Edouard Glissant Prize and the Dagnan-Bouveret Prize; his books in translation include African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Seagull, 2011) and Islam and Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (Codesria, 2011).

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