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

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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Main Author: Yaman, Hikmet.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 81.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004223066.

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Call Number: B745.K53 Y36 2011

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.