Classification of knowledge in Islam

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Author: Osman Bakar
Publisher: Islamic Texts Society
Year: 1998
Pages: 312
Printed: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-946621-71-3
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: New
Weight: 470 gr.
Description: Successive generations of Muslim scholars, from al-Kindi in the ninth century to Shah Waliallah of Delhi in the eighteenth century, have devoted considerable efforts to the exposition of this theme. The lives and the ideas of the three thinkers discussed in Classification of Knowledge in Islam – al-Farabi (870-950AD), al-Ghazzali (1058-1111AD) and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236-1311AD) – cover the pivotal period of Islamic history from the first flourishing of the philosophical sciences to the sacking of Baghdad by the Mongols. In addition, each of these three thinkers was either a founder or an eminent representative of a major intellectual school in Islam.

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Weight 0.470 kg