Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy write by Kiki Kennedy-Day. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Islamic Philosophy has unusual origins. Originally a hybrid of Greek philosophy and early Islamic theology, its technical language consisted of a number of words translated from the Greek. This book studies how Islamic philosophers of the ninth century AD, such as al-Kindi, al-Farabi and Ibn Sina, developed an indigenous set of terms and concepts. Their Books of Definition influenced the revision of the Arabic language to incorporate these new fields of knowledge. Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy: The Limits of Words uses the work of these philosophers as a basis from which a comparison with their Greek precedents is enabled. The book presents a framework for incorporating an Islamic and historically contextualised philosophy into a continuum of world philosophers. At the core of this framework is Ibn Sina's Kitab al-hudud which the author has translated into English and situates it in its correct geopolitical framework. In establishing a historical and literary context for the writing and circulation of Ibn Sina's definitions, the book breaks new ground in the integration of Islamic philosophy within a general history of philosophies. This fascinating and comprehensive study will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of Islamic Philosophy.
Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy
Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy write by Kiki Kennedy-Day. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Islamic Philosophy has unusual origins. Originally a hybrid of Greek philosophy and early Islamic theology, its technical language consisted of a number of words translated from the Greek. This book studies how Islamic philosophers of the ninth century AD, such as al-Kindi, al-Farabi and Ibn Sina, developed an indigenous set of terms and concepts. Their Books of Definition influenced the revision of the Arabic language to incorporate these new fields of knowledge. Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy: The Limits of Words uses the work of these philosophers as a basis from which a comparison with their Greek precedents is enabled. The book presents a framework for incorporating an Islamic and historically contextualised philosophy into a continuum of world philosophers. At the core of this framework is Ibn Sina's Kitab al-hudud which the author has translated into English and situates it in its correct geopolitical framework. In establishing a historical and literary context for the writing and circulation of Ibn Sina's definitions, the book breaks new ground in the integration of Islamic philosophy within a general history of philosophies. This fascinating and comprehensive study will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of Islamic Philosophy.
The Essence of Islamic Philosophy
The Essence of Islamic Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essence of Islamic Philosophy write by Mashhad Al-ʻAllāf. This book was released on 2003. The Essence of Islamic Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Problem of Definition in Islamic Logic
The Problem of Definition in Islamic Logic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Definition in Islamic Logic write by Zainal Abidin Baqir. This book was released on 1998. The Problem of Definition in Islamic Logic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy
Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy write by Ibrahim Kalin. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study looks at how the seventeenth-century philosopher Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi, known as Mulla Sadra, attempted to reconcile the three major forms of knowledge in Islamic philosophical discourses: revelation (Qur'an), demonstration (burhan), and gnosis or intuitive knowledge ('irfan). In his grand synthesis, which he calls the 'Transcendent Wisdom', Mulla Sadra bases his epistemological considerations on a robust analysis of existence and its modalities. His key claim that knowledge is a mode of existence rejects and revises the Kalam definitions of knowledge as relation and as a property of the knower on the one hand, and the Avicennan notions of knowledge as abstraction and representation on the other. For Sadra, all these theories land us in a subjectivist theory of knowledge where the knowing subject is defined as the primary locus of all epistemic claims. To explore the possibilities of a 'non-subjectivist' epistemology, Sadra seeks to shift the focus from knowledge as a mental act of representation to knowledge as presence and unveiling. The concept of knowledge has occupied a central place in the Islamic intellectual tradition. While Muslim philosophers have adopted the Greek ideas of knowledge, they have also developed new approaches and broadened the study of knowledge. The challenge of reconciling revealed knowledge with unaided reason and intuitive knowledge has led to an extremely productive debate among Muslims intellectuals in the classical period. In a culture where knowledge has provided both spiritual perfection and social status, Muslim scholars have created a remarkable discourse of knowledge and vastly widened the scope of what it means to know. For Sadra, in knowing things, we unveil an aspect of existence and thus engage with the countless modalities and colours of the all-inclusive reality of existence. In such a framework, we give up the subjectivist claims of ownership of meaning. The intrinsic intelligibility of existence, an argument Sadra establishes through his elaborate ontology, strips the knowing subject of its privileged position of being the sole creator of meaning. Instead, meaning and intelligibility are defined as functions of existence to be deciphered and unveiled by the knowing subject. This leads to a redefinition of the relationship between subject and object or what Muslim philosophers call the knower and the known.
