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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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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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
- 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.