Who were the most important thinkers of the Islamic world during the Middle Ages? While there would be too many to include in a single article, there …
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Islamic Philosophers You Should Know
In the medieval period, several Islamic philosophers developed ideas that became incredibly influential, both during their lifetime and in subsequent centuries.
Averroes was an Andalusian polymath whose legacy of works has deeply influenced Western thought. Most known for his Aristotelian commentaries, …
What is Islamic philosophy, and what can we learn from this tradition? The purpose of this article is to introduce several different ideas from …
Islamic philosophy remains woefully understudied, despite the many important similarities, affinities, and points of discursive contact with …
Ibn Sina, known in the west as Avicenna via the Hebrew translation of his name, is one of the most influential thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age. …
This article explores Al-Ghazali’s engagement with previous Islamic philosophy, in particular that of Ibn Sina, and hopes to explain why he argued …
Ibn Sina was a highly original philosopher, who wrote at a time when extraordinary poise was required to balance the requirements of reason and faith …
In the first part of this article, we explored 13th century Andalusian spiritual scholar Ibn Arabi’s experience of what it means to say ‘God is one’. …
Commonly referred to as Al-Shaykh Al-Akbar (The Greatest Master), Ibn Arabi was born in 1165 CE in southern Murcia. He was the only son of an elite …
