KBA13 Academy Archive and Library
KBA Writings
Books, journal articles, papers and other writings by Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad.
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AMAZONBookTHE SHADOW STATE: How the KGB, Mossad, and the World's Most Powerful Intelligence Networks Shape Global Power
Who truly shapes the modern world—the leaders we see or the invisible networks operating behind the architecture of power?In the twenty-first century, global power is no…
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin and Ibn Sīnā: Epistemology, Hermeneutics, and Imaginal World
What if Ibn Sīnā was not only a philosopher of reason but also a thinker of imagination, experience, and inner transformation? For centuries, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) has of…
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AMAZONBookTHE FUTURE OF THE WORLD: Geopolitics, Civilizational Competition, and the Coming World Order
What will the future of the world look like in an age of geopolitical rivalry, artificial intelligence, civilizational competition, and shifting global power?The Future …
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AMAZONBookThe Fricative Knowledge Paradigm: Reclaiming the Divine Breath in Science, Consciousness, and Human Becoming
What if knowledge is not something we produce but something we receive? In The Fricative Knowledge Paradigm: Reclaiming the Divine Breath in Science, Consciousness, and…
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AMAZONBookIsaiah Berlin and the Defense of the Human World: Freedom, Tragedy, and the Moral Foundations of Pluralism
What if the greatest threat to humanity comes not from evil, but from those who believe they are saving the world? In a century scarred by revolutions, purges, and the …
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin and Suhrawardi: Light, Vision, and the Reality of Being
What if reality isn't hidden behind the world — but revealed through it as light? In Henry Corbin and Suhrawardi: Light, Vision, and the Reality of Being, Kamaruzzaman …
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin and the Esoteric Heart of Shi’ism: The Imaginal World of Iran
Henry Corbin and the Esoteric Heart of Shi’ism: The Imaginal World of Iran is a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of Shi’ite Islam through the visionary lens of o…
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AMAZONBookThe Cosmic Mind: Sacred Power, Strategic Territory, and National Defense in Indonesia: A Comparative Study of Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese Cosmology
What if national defense is not only built by weapons, strategies, and institutions—but by the deepest cosmological beliefs that shape how a people understand reality it…
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin and Martin Heidegger: From Phenomenology to Angelology
What remains of ontology after the end of metaphysics? In Henry Corbin and Martin Heidegger: From Phenomenology to Angelology, Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad offers a bold…
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AMAZONBookThe Ontology of Tajalli: Henry Corbin and Ibn ‘Arabi on the Reality of Being
The Ontology of Tajalli: Henry Corbin and Ibn ‘Arabi on the Reality of BeingUnlock a transformative journey through the deepest questions of reality, Being, and consciou…
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin, Charles Taylor, and Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas: Metaphysics and the Making of Islam Nusantara in Indonesia
What does it mean to think Islam beyond doctrine, ritual, and politics—and instead from the depth of metaphysical imagination?Henry Corbin, Charles Taylor, and Syed Muha…
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AMAZONBookHENRY CORBIN AND THE MUNDUS IMAGINALIS: Figural Ontology, Vision, and the Reality of Appearance
What is mundus imaginalis, and why does it matter for contemporary philosophy, religion, and metaphysics? In this rigorous and original study, Henry Corbin and the Mund…
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin and the Ontology of the Imaginal World: Islamic Metaphysics Beyond Representation
Henry Corbin and the Ontology of the Imaginal World is a rigorous philosophical inquiry into one of the most overlooked yet decisive dimensions of Islamic metaphysics: t…
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AMAZONBookTHE UNMAKING OF SACRED ORDER: Reform, Discipline, and the Birth of the Secular Self
Why did modern secularity emerge—not as a rejection of God, but as the unintended outcome of religious devotion itself? In The Unmaking of Sacred Order, Kamaruzzaman Bu…
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AMAZONBookMoral Sources of Meaning: Charles Taylor and the Foundations of Ethical Life
Moral Sources of Meaning: Charles Taylor and the Foundations of Ethical Life is a profound philosophical inquiry into why modern moral thought feels increasingly thin, p…
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AMAZONBookIntellectuals Under Tyranny: Isaiah Berlin on Culture and Fear
Intellectuals under Tyranny: Berlin on Culture and Fear is a penetrating exploration of how intellectual life survives-and is transformed-under conditions of political d…
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AMAZONBookISAIAH BERLIN AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: Anti-Scientism, Value Pluralism, and the Limits of Social Knowledge
Isaiah Berlin is rarely read as a thinker of the social sciences. He wrote no manuals of method, proposed no unified theory, and resisted every attempt to systematize hi…
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin and the Imaginal World: Revisiting the Spiritual Hermeneutics in the Postmodern Age
In Henry Corbin and the Imaginal World, Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad reintroduces one of the most profound metaphysical thinkers of the twentieth century — Henry Corbin —…
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AMAZONBookImaginal Islam: Henry Corbin and the Metaphysics of the Imaginal World
Imaginal Islam: Henry Corbin and the Metaphysics of the Imaginal World is a continuation of my long-term engagement with the thought of Henry Corbin. Building upon my ea…
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AMAZONBookHow Isaiah Berlin Read Philosophers: Reason, Freedom, and the Temptation of Moral Unity
This book offers a rare and disciplined introduction to Isaiah Berlin's distinctive way of reading philosophers. Rather than presenting Berlin as the author of a closed …
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AMAZONBookBeyond Method: Meaning, Theory, and the Intellectual Practice of Socio-Anthropological Research
What does it actually mean to conduct research in the humanities and social sciences?Beyond procedural compliance, formatting rules, and methodological templates, this b…
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AMAZONBookIsaiah Berlin: Jewishness, Pluralism, and the Moral World of Ideas
This book is the culmination of a sustained intellectual engagement with the thought of Isaiah Berlin, developed over nearly a decade of research, writing, and critical …
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AMAZONBookIsaiah Berlin and the Making of the History of Ideas: Reconstructing Minds, Methods, and the Modern Craft of Intellectual History
What does it truly mean to study ideas—not as abstract doctrines, but as living responses to human dilemmas?In Isaiah Berlin and the Making of the History of Ideas, Kama…
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AMAZONBookThe Tyranny of Certainty: Isaiah Berlin, Vico, Herder, and Hamann in the Counter-Enlightenment
THE TYRANNY OF CERTAINTYIsaiah Berlin, Vico, Herder, and Hamann in the Counter-EnlightenmentEvery age is tempted by the most dangerous promise in human history:the belie…
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AMAZONBookThe Tragedy of Certainty: Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx, and the Fight for the Human World
In an age fractured by ideological absolutism and the renewed seduction of political certainty, few thinkers speak to our moment with greater urgency than Isaiah Berlin.…