GSP is involved in a number of projects focused on organized research (publications, the organization of conferences, and collaboration among scholars) in Islamic philosophy, as is exemplified in the following projects:

I. Islamic Translation Series: Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism (ITS)

The Islamic Translation Series: Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism (hereafter ITS) is designed not only to further scholarship in Islamic Studies but, by encouraging the translation of Islamic texts and the integration of Islamic studies into Western academia, it seeks to promote the infusion of global perspectives into the disciplines to which it is devoted. If this goal is achieved, it will not be for the first time. Historians well know that during the so-called Middle Ages, a portion of the philosophical, scientific, and mathematical wealth of the Islamic tradition entered into the West and greatly enriched it. Even Christian theology was affected, as is illustrated in the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, and other scholastics. Manuscripts submitted to ITS for consideration are evaluated without regard to either the religious, methodological, and political preferences of the translator(s), or their gender and national origin(s). Neither the translator of each text, nor the editors of the series, nor the members of the advisory board, are held solely responsible for the volume in question. Please send inquiries concerning ITS to Parviz Morewedge,
E-Mail: pmorewed@globalscholarlypublications.com>.

Executive Committee:

Advisory Board

S. M. Naquib al-Attas, J. Badakhchani, C. E. Butterworth, W. C. Chittick, F. Daftary, H. Landolt, M. S. Mahdi, M.E.Marmura, S.H. Nasr, I. Poonawala, N. Pourjavady, A. Preus, J. Walbridge, H. Ziai

Co-Sponsors

Center for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (Brigham Young U.)
Global Scholarly Publications (SSIPS)

Publisher: Brigham Young University Press (Provo, Utah)
Distributor: University of Chicago Press

II. Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS)

The Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science was established at Binghamton University in 1970. Since then its Executive Secretary has been Parviz Morewedge (Rutgers University) and its President has been Muhsin S. Mahdi, (the former Director of scholarly centers at the University of Chicago and Harvard University). The Executive Committee of SSIPS has included many distinguished scholars, the late George F. Hourani (at SUNY Buffalo), Charles E. Butterworth (University of Maryland), Hermann Landolt (McGill University), Michael E. Marmura (University of Toronto), and Daniel Peterson (Brigham Young University).

Funding and Institutional Linkage:

As part of the GSP’s organized research in Islamic studies, SSIPS collaborates with GSP and its counterparts in Jewish, Christian, Africana, Chinese and Indic studies.
SSIPS’ scholarly projects have received funding from a number of universities including: Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, McGill, Toronto, UCLA, Texas at Austin, Brigham Young, University of Utah, University of Washington, CUNY, SUNY, and others. In addition, it has received funding from the Social Science Research Council, the Imperial Academy of Philosophy of Iran, the McGill’s Institute of Iranian Studies, the Pahlavi Library, Tehran University, Meshhad University, and the Center for the Study of Culture at Tehran, Iran.
For the last twenty-one years, SSIPS and the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy have organized annual international conferences on Africana, Greek, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Asian traditions; more than three hundred speakers have attended recent meetings. Co-sponsors of these conferences included the Hamdard Foundation of Pakistan, The Canadian Aristotelian Society, McGill’s Institute of Islamic Studies at Montreal, Canada, Ayn Shams University in Egypt, Cornell University’s Africana Research and Studies Center, New York University’s Center for Near Eastern Studies, Columbia University’s School of International Studies, Fordham University's Philosophy Department, and others. Conferences organized by SSIPS have been convened at SUNY, CUNY, New York University, Columbia University, and others. A number of scholars from Europe, Canada, the Middle East, and Africa come to SSIPS quarters during the summer for collaboration on their scholarly manuscripts. SSIPS has been involved in the organization of conferences on Africana Philosophy, annual Africana conferences for Black History Month, the New York State Chapter of African Studies Association, and a philosophy conference for a Nigerian Philosophy Association.