Mulla Sadra made the primacy of existence (asalat al-wujud) the cornerstone of his philosophy. Aristotle had pointed out that existence was the most universal of predicates and therefore could not be included as one of the categories, and Farabi added to this that it was possible to know an...
We should be heedful, in short, that, as pointed out by Al-Khwârazmî, his text is an abridged one, that it is a text in which the algorithm called algebra has been presented by way of summary, by somehow abbreviating it. It is worth noting that Al-Khwârazmî did not only...
Thedaʿwawas a hierarchical establishment consisting of the intellectual and religious elite of the Fatimid state. Though sometimes translated as “preachers,” the term “duʿāt” referred to scholars with a mission that went well beyond preaching. During the Fatimid dynastydaʿwa“functioned...
Other influential thinkers include the Persiansal-FarabiandAvicenna(Ibn Sīnā), as well as the SpaniardAverroës(Ibn Rushd), whose interpretations ofAristotlewere taken up by both Jewish and Christian thinkers. When the Arabs dominatedAndalusian Spain, the Arabic philosophic literature was translated ...