Islamic philosophy Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Islamic philosophy.

  • 6 Encyclopedia Articles

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Encyclopedia Articles (6)

319 words, approx. 2 pages
Averroism in Modern Islamic Philosophy Averroes (Ibn Rushd) largely disappeared from the Islamic world after his death in 1198, but returned through the influence of Ernest Renan, who in the nineteent... Read more
995 words, approx. 4 pages
Enlightenment, Islamic Beginnings The Islamic Nahḍah (rebirth, renaissance) started in Syria and achieved its real momentum in Egypt in the nineteenth century, then as subsequently the intellec... Read more
5,503 words, approx. 19 pages
Islamic Philosophy In Islam the development of philosophical thought, properly speaking, succeeded earlier schools of dialectical theology (kalām) that began to arise in the eighth century (sec... Read more
3,800 words, approx. 13 pages
Islamic Philosophy [addendum] Mysticism (Sufism) Mysticism is of enormous significance in Islamic philosophy. Few Islamic philosophers were not committed to some form or another of mysticism. Ibn Sab&... Read more
1,189 words, approx. 4 pages
School of Qom, The The School of Qom refers to the tradition of theological institutions of Shiʿa learning in Qom, a city in southern Iran. Along with Meshhad in North Eastern Iran and Karbala ... Read more
9,305 words, approx. 32 pages
Falsafah FALSAFAH. The term falsafah is the Arabized loan word from the Greek philosophia, "love of wisdom," and hence in its general sense simply means "philosophy." It is... Read more