An Anthology Of Essays by Ashraf

About the Book

An Anthology of Essays by Ashraf, is a rich and Intelligent tapestry of thoughts, which are woven in the dimension of time depicting the unity of human experience that every person has within himself/herself the entire human condition. Even if every thought appears as an afterthought, Ashraf has viewed and judged them in the present. It stays in the mind and as a collection of treatises it shares with others the knowledge argued in this work of landmark discerning and entertaining writing. This book is a work of vibrant literary form of essay writing representing the robust tradition of essay writing beginning from Classical Greek period, Ancient Rome, and the Golden Age of the Arabs of Baghdad, Cordova, and Cairo, right up to the modern age of artificial intelligence. In its Part -1, there are essays on the subjects of philosophy, science, human consciousness, artificial intelligence, humanities, origin of democracy, on war and peace. Part-2 contains essays about the world of Islam’s golden age when the knowledge of scientific researches and discoveries by the Muslims was transmitted to the Europeans laying the foundation of progression of knowledge in the Western world.

About the Author

Mirza Iqbal Ashraf is a retired professor of English Language and Literature. He taught both graduate and post-graduate students and lectured on English language, literature, and philosophical issues in his native Pakistan. Since immigrating to the United States of America, he works as an independent research scholar of world philosophies, sociopolitical, cross-cultural, and inter-faith subjects. He is author of following published books: 1. Introduction to World Philosophies: A Chronological Progression. 2. Rumi’s Holistic Humanism: The Timeless Appeal of the Great Mystic Poet 3. Islamic Philosophy of War and Peace. 4. Diversity and Unity in Islamic Civilization. 5. Human Existence and Identity in Modern Age: A Socio-philosophical Reflection Ashraf holds a Master’s degree in English Language and Literature, and Bachelor’s degree of Honours in Persian language, literature, and Islamic Philosophy. He lives in New York.