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...
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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...
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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...
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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&...
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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 ...
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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...
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Averroism in Modern Islamic Philosophy
Falsafah