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In its narrowest sense it is a translation of Falsafa, meaning those particular schools of thought that most reflect the influence of Greek systems of philosophy such as Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism. Some schools of thought within Islam deny the usefulness or legitimacy of philosophical inquiry.
Jun 28, 2008 · After the establishment of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad (750), subjects of various faiths contributed to an atmosphere of relatively free debate concerning the main constructs of religion, such as God, creation, causality, free will and divine authority.
Dec 1, 2021 · Falsafa, the Islamic Philosophy. Origins. — The origins of falsafa are purely Greek; the activity of the falasifa [q.v.] begins with Arabic translations of the Greek philosophical texts (whether direct or through a Syriac intermediary). Thus falsafa appears first as the continuation of filosof¤a in Muslim surroundings.
Aug 14, 2007 · The movement of falsafa (from Greek: philosophía) resulted from the translation of Greek philosophical and scientific literature into Arabic from the 8th to the early 10th centuries. The Arabic philosophers ( falâsifa ) were heirs to the late-antique tradition of understanding the works of Aristotle in Neoplatonic terms.
Jul 5, 2012 · The so-called “early” or “classical” phase of falsafa ends with the largest commentary on the Metaphysics available in Western philosophy, by Ibn Rushd (Averroes). The following “golden” age of Arabic thought continues to be primarily concerned with metaphysics, turning from the effort of interpreting the intricacies of Aristotle ...
FALSAFA. Philosophical speculation in Islamic culture has triple roots in theology (kalam), philosophy proper (falsafa), and mysticism (tasawwuf). Theological Beginnings
Jul 29, 2016 · Ibn Sīnā (980–1037)—the Avicenna of Latin fame—is arguably the most important representative of falsafa, the Graeco-Arabic philosophical tradition beginning with Plato and Aristotle, extending through the Neoplatonic commentary tradition and continuing among philosophers and scientists in the medieval Arabic world.
Other articles where falsafah is discussed: Islamic world: Egypt, Syria, and the holy cities: Falsafah, the Arabic cognate for the Greek philosophia, included metaphysics and logic, as well as the positive sciences, such as mathematics, music, astronomy, and anatomy. Faylasūfs often earned their living as physicians, astrologers, or musicians. The faylasūf’s whole way of life, like that of the…
Aug 5, 2016 · In this chapter, I begin to make the case for considering the great, medieval Islamic philosophers—the falasifa—through the prism of contemporary, Western scholarship on the ethics of belief. Within the Islamic intellectual movement, I identify three...
Nov 2, 2016 · Al-Falsafa al-ūlā or first philosophy is Aristotle’s third designation of theoretical philosophy (Metaph. VI.1, 1026a29 ff. and XI.4, 1061b19 and 28 as well as 7, 1064a33–b3), and indeed Kindī treats first philosophy as a theology, though definitely not the theology of Metaphysics XII.
