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Falsafa is a Greek loanword meaning "philosophy" (the Greek pronunciation philosophia became falsafa). From the 9th century onward, due to Caliph al-Ma'mun and his successor, ancient Greek philosophy was introduced among the Arabs and the Peripatetic School began to find able representatives.
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.
- Hossein Ziai
- 2008
This brief chapter discusses al-Ghazali’s attitude toward the tradition of Aristotelianism in Islam (falsafa). His criticism of twenty teachings held by Muslim Aristotelians (falasifa), and among them most prominently Avicenna (Ibn Sina) has often been wrongly considered a destruction of falsafa.
- Theological Beginnings
- Classical Philosophy
- The Post–Ibn Sina Developments of Metaphysics and Epistemology
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
The genesis of Muslim philosophical theology is manifested in the marriage of Greek logic and monotheistic apologetics in the school of Mu˓tazilah initiated by Wasil ibn ˓Ata (d. 748) and developed by Abu al-Hudhayl al-˓Allaf (d. 849/850), his nephew al-Nazzam (d. c. 435/445), and the jurist ˓Abd al-Jabbar (d. 1204/1205). They inquired into such qu...
The classical age of Islamic philosophy is marked by the following features: (a) an increasing awareness of the importance of Greek philosophy, especially of Aristotelian delineation and division of philosophical studies such as ontology, epistemology, normative types of inquiry, analytical disciplines such as logic and mathematics, natural science...
Ibn Sina's original insights culminated in a number of the following ideas in later Islamic philosophy. The world depicted as a process analogous to a flowing river or a shining sun. To begin with, for Aristotle, the ultimate constituent of the world consists of what he called first substances, which are primarily individual, concrete particulars l...
Philosophical speculations comprise an essential dimension of the Islamic intellectual tradition not only in its technical philosophical corpus, but also in its religious, mystical, and literary traditions. It is true that its major framework lies in Greek philosophical sources, especially in Aristotle and Plotinus, and that its content derives fro...
El-Bizri, Nader. The Quest for Being: Avicenna and Heidegger.Binghamton, N.Y.: Global Publications, 2000. Fakhry, Majid. A History of Islamic Philosophy, 2d ed. New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 1983. Ibn Sina. The Metaphysica of Avicenna (Ibn Sina). Translated by Parviz Morewedge. New York and London: Columbia UniversityPress and Routledge Kegan...
Jun 15, 2016 · While al-Farabi does not have a specific term for ‘philosophy of religion’, he does in fact have one which can more or less literally be translated as ‘philosophy of society’, namely, falsafa madaniyya. Notably, this notion embraces two chief moments.
Jul 22, 2021 · He clarifies that falsafa is not a “science” or a “field of knowledge” in itself” but rather consists of four different fields of study: geometry ( handasa ), logic ( manṭiq ), metaphysics/philosophical theology ( ilāhiyyāt ), and the natural sciences ( ṭabīʿiyyāt ).
