Prophetic niche in the virtuous city : the concept of Hikmah in early Islamic thought /

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

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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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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.
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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.

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