Islamic philosophy

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branch of philosophy intellectual tradition philosophical tradition

Islamic philosophy is the tradition of philosophical inquiry within the Islamic world that engages with metaphysics, ethics, theology, and logic, drawing on the Qur’an, Greek philosophy, and diverse intellectual currents such as Sufism, kalam, and falsafa.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of philosophy → intellectual tradition → philosophical tradition →
addressesQuestion	creation and eternity of the world → ethics and virtuous life → free will and predestination → nature of God → nature of the soul → political authority and governance → relationship between reason and revelation →
continuesIn	contemporary Islamic thought →
debatedWith	Asharite theology → Mu‘tazilite theology →
developedIn	Al-Andalus → Islamic world → Middle East → North Africa → Persia →
developedInPeriod	10th century → 11th century → 12th century → 13th century → 8th century → 9th century → classical Islamic era →
hasConcept	acquired intellect → active intellect → contingent being → emanation → necessary being → prophetic knowledge → substantial motion → unity of existence →
hasDomain	ethics → logic → metaphysics → theology →
hasSubtradition	Sufi philosophy → falsafa → illuminationist philosophy → kalam → transcendent theosophy →
influenced	Jewish philosophy → Latin scholasticism → medieval Christian philosophy →
influencedBy	Aristotelian philosophy → Greek philosophy → Hellenistic philosophy → Neoplatonism → Qur’an → Sufism → falsafa → kalam →
languageOfExpression	Arabic → Ottoman Turkish → Persian → Urdu →
majorFigure	Al-Farabi → Al-Ghazali → Al-Kindi → Al-Razi → Fakhr al-Din al-Razi → Ibn Arabi → Ibn Rushd → Ibn Sina → Ikhwan al-Safa → Mulla Sadra → Nasir al-Din al-Tusi → Suhrawardi →
relatedTo	Islamic jurisprudence → Islamic mysticism → Islamic theology →
studiedIn	hawza seminaries → madrasas → universities →
usesMethod	dialectical reasoning → logical analysis → rational argumentation →

Referenced by (20)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aristotelian physics → Aristotelianism → Classical Greek philosophy → Islamic kalam ("Islamic philosophy (falsafa)") → Metaphysics (Aristotle) → Neoplatonism → Platonism → Posterior Analytics ("Islamic philosophy of science") → Prior Analytics → Sufism → the One →	influenced
Geonic period ("Arabic philosophy") → Omar Khayyam → Scholastic theology → five ways to prove the existence of God →	influencedBy
Al-Azhar University →	fieldOfStudy
Islamic world →	hasCulturalContribution
Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn →	philosophicalInfluence
Al-Farabi →	philosophicalTradition
Avicenna →	schoolTradition