Prophetic niche in the virtuous city : the concept of Hikmah in early Islamic thought / / by Hikmet Yaman.
This book analyzes the concept of ḥikmah in early Islamic texts within a network of multiple conceptual interrelationships in the cross-disciplinary context of Muslim works, roughly up to al-Ghazali's lifetime. The word ḥikmah has a wide spectrum of connotations in these texts, because it basic...
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| Superior document: | Islamic philosophy, theology, and science : texts and studies ; v. 81 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ;
v. 81. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | This book analyzes the concept of ḥikmah in early Islamic texts within a network of multiple conceptual interrelationships in the cross-disciplinary context of Muslim works, roughly up to al-Ghazali's lifetime. The word ḥikmah has a wide spectrum of connotations in these texts, because it basically contains all knowledge within human reach, and accordingly, received a range of diverse scholarly treatments. This work contextualizes ḥikmah in a nuanced fashion in the collective usage of early Muslim authors, mainly by lexicographers, exegetes, philosophers, and Sufis. For the first time in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies, particularly in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism, this study explores the concept of ḥikmah in an all-embracing capacity. Ḥikmah is a central concept of Islamic thinking, related to almost all intellectual disciplines of Muslim scholarly tradition, but it has been insufficiently underlined and treated in earlier western scholarship. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-281) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9004191062 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Hikmet Yaman. |