Prophetic niche in the virtuous city : the concept of Hikmah in early Islamic thought / / by Hikmet Yaman.

• Superior document: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science : texts and studies ; v. 81
• Author: Yaman, Hikmet.
• 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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- PART ONE ḤIKMAH IN EARLY ARABIC LEXICOGRAPHY -- Chapter One: The Derivation of the Word Ḥikmah -- Chapter Two: Ḥikmah in Terminological Dictionaries -- Chapter Three: Contemporary Western Scholarship on the Meaning of Ḥikmah -- PART TWO ḤIKMAH IN EARLY MUSLIM EXEGETICAL LITERATURE -- Chapter Four: General Definitions in the Qurʾān -- Chapter Five: Ḥikmah and the Prophets -- Chapter Six: Ḥikmah in Relation to Ḥakīm and Ḥukm -- PART THREE ḤIKMAH IN EARLY SUFI LITERATURE -- Chapter Seven: Ḥikmah and the Earliest Sufi Authorities -- Chapter Eight: Ḥikmah in the Context of Early Sufi Exegetical Works -- Chapter Nine: Ḥikmah in Early Sufi Manuals and Treatises -- Chapter Ten: The Merit of Ḥikmah -- PART FOUR ḤIKMAH IN EARLY PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE -- Chapter Eleven: Ḥikmah in the Pre-Islamic Philosophical World -- Chapter Twelve: Ḥikmah in the Islamic Philosophical World -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.