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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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Islamic philosophy canonical	39
Arabic philosophy	2
Islamic Neoplatonism	2
Islamic Aristotelianism	1
Islamic Peripatetic philosophy	1
Islamic philosophical theology	1
Islamic philosophy (falsafa)	1
Islamic philosophy of science	1

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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	Ash'ari ⓘ surface form: Asharite theology Mu‘tazilite theology ⓘ
developedIn	Andalusia ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Quran ⓘ surface form: Qur’an Sufism ⓘ falsafa ⓘ kalam ⓘ
languageOfExpression	Arabic ⓘ Ottoman Turkish ⓘ Persian ⓘ Urdu language ⓘ surface form: Urdu
majorFigure	Al-Farabi ⓘ al‑Ghazali ⓘ surface form: Al-Ghazali Al-Kindi ⓘ Al-Razi (Rhazes) ⓘ surface form: Al-Razi Fakhr al-Din al-Razi ⓘ Ibn Arabi ⓘ Averroes ⓘ surface form: Ibn Rushd Avicenna ⓘ surface form: Ibn Sina Ikhwan al-Safa ⓘ Mulla Sadra ⓘ Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ⓘ Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi ⓘ surface form: Suhrawardi
relatedTo	Islamic jurisprudence ⓘ Sufism ⓘ surface form: Islamic mysticism Islamic theology ⓘ
studiedIn	hawza seminaries ⓘ madrasas ⓘ universities ⓘ
usesMethod	dialectical reasoning ⓘ logical analysis ⓘ rational argumentation ⓘ

Referenced by (48)

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Sufism → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Classical Greek philosophy → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Islamic world → hasCulturalContribution → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Aristotelian physics → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Al-Azhar University → fieldOfStudy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Omar Khayyam → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Platonism → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Neoplatonism → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Scholastic theology → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

the One → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Aristotelianism → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Geonic period → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arabic philosophy

Islamic kalam → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic philosophy (falsafa)

Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn → philosophicalInfluence → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Al-Farabi → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Avicenna → schoolTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

five ways to prove the existence of God → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Metaphysics → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

subject surface form: Metaphysics (Aristotle)

Prior Analytics → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Posterior Analytics → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic philosophy of science

Aristotle’s On the Heavens → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

900 Theses → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Ibn Miskawayh → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Akbarian school → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic Neoplatonism

Ikhwan al-Safa → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Shia Sufism → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Abdolkarim Soroush → fieldOfWork → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Platonic corpus → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Rumuz-e-Bekhudi → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Zarb-e-Kalim → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Muʿtazilite theology → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic philosophical theology

Ibn Tufayl → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Qusta ibn Luqa → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arabic philosophy

Aristotle's writings → influenced → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Toshihiko Izutsu → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

The Deliverance from Error → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

The Incoherence of the Incoherence → philosophicalContext → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic Aristotelianism

Nasir Khusraw → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Fifth Treatise on the Soul and Death → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Second Teacher → associatedWithTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic Peripatetic philosophy

Second Master → usedIn → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Ara Ahl al-Madina al-Fadila → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Ihsa al-Ulum → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Kitab al-Huruf → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Bahya ibn Paquda → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

al-Madina al-Fadila → philosophicalTradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani → tradition → Islamic philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic Neoplatonism

Scholasticism → influencedBy → Islamic philosophy ⓘ