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	Early Islamic philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early Muslim philosophy is considered influential in the rise of modern philosophy.
		As the Sunnah became published and accepted, philosophy separate from Muslim theology was discouraged due to a lack of participants.
		Early Muslim medicine and Early Muslim sociology in particular benefited from the Mutazilite approach, but it led to very strong reaction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_Muslim_philosophy (607 words)

	Muslim
		The word Muslim means one who submits and implies complete submission to the rule of God.
		Many English writers used to describe Muslims as "Mohamedans" or "Mohametans", meaning "followers of Mohammed", but this terminology incorrect and insulting, because it implies that they worship the prophet Muhammad, which is against the fundamental principles of Islam itself.
		There are 1.2 billion Muslims presently on Earth, almost entirely in the Eastern Hemisphere[?] concentrated on the equator, with some in Europe.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mu/Muslims.html (533 words)

	Muslim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Muslims consider the Arabic Qur'an as the direct revelation of God; translations do exist to other languages but are not regarded as the literal word of God.
		Early Muslim philosophy is one of the main bridges between classical Greco-Roman civilization and the Europeans of The Renaissance.
		Muslim culture began to revive after World War I, and some consider 1979 to be a crucial year when several events (peace between Israel and Egypt, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and Iranian revolution) conspired to be a "wake up" call to the ummah.
	muslim.iqnaut.net (1275 words)

	Mutazilite
		This school held that reason alone is sufficient to understand the nature of Allah ("God") and existence, and guide man's actions to right or wrong results, and to perceive the difference between morality and immorality.
		They were in general supportive of early Greek philosophy[?] and reacting to kalam, the traditional process of interrogation, that had dominated Muslim thought since its beginnings.
		By the dawn of the 13th century the Asharites were clearly in ascendance, due in part to the increasing diversity of Islam and the difficulty of maintaining a coherent discourse in the Arabic language that would reach all Muslims everywhere.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mu/Mutazilite.html (508 words)

	PHILOSOPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As recently as the early 19th century, natural philosopher was a term for a student of any of the sciences.
		He developed a many-sided philosophy that includes a theory of knowledge, a theory of human conduct, a theory of the state, and a theory of the universe.
		Early in the modern period Francis Bacon was an ardent advocate of the new learning.
	history-world.org /philosophy.htm (5620 words)

	Muslim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The basic beliefs of Muslims are: belief God His angels His revealed Books His and the Day of Judgement and affirmation fate and the Divine Decree the good it and the bad of it.
		Many writers used to call Muslims "Mohamedans" or meaning "followers of Mohammed" but this terminology considered incorrect and insulting because it is to imply that they worship the prophet Muhammad contrary to the fundamental principles of itself.
		Early Muslim philosophy is widely credited with being the bridge between classical Greco-Roman civilization and the of The Renaissance.
	www.freeglossary.com /Muslim (1499 words)

	A History of Muslim Philosophy
		The primary reason for this concentration on the Chou philosophies is that they represent the indigenous Chinese schools of philosophy before they were affected by the advent of other philosophical or religious idea, for example.
		A study of classical Chinese philosophy discloses that it possesses at least four highly distinctive features which may be a reflection of the dominance of this peasant mentality: lack of metaphysics, dearth of logical sophistication, preoccupation with ethics, and a regressive theory of history.
		Speculative philosophy seeks a comprehensive understanding of the nature of reality, of God, of man, and of the universe; it strives for a synoptic vision; while, in contrast, practical reason of practical philosophy is concerned with the empirical approach to concrete problems of living and action.
	www.al-islam.org /historyofmuslimphilosophy/5.htm (4032 words)

	Early Muslim sociology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early Muslim sociology responded to the challenges of social organization of diverse peoples all under common religious organization in the Islamic caliphate, the Abbasid and later Mamluk period in Egypt.
		Without doubt the most important figure in early Muslim sociology was Ibn Khaldun, who conceived both a central social conflict ("town" versus "desert") as well as a theory (using the concept of a "generation") of the necessary loss of power of city conquerors coming from the desert.
		Early Muslim sociology is more like that of Hegel or Marx in emphasizing dialectic or feedback loops, or like systems theory as applied in such fields as corporate social responsibility, than it is like that of Weber and others who emphasize structures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_Muslim_sociology (785 words)

	Islamic philosophy - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Islamic philosophy may be defined in a number of different ways, but the perspective taken here is that it represents the style of philosophy produced within the framework of Islamic culture.
		The main sources of classical or early Islamic philosophy are the religion of Islam itself and the Greek philosophical heritage which the early Muslims inherited as a result of conquests when Alexandria, Syria and Jundishapur came under Muslim rule.
		Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy ملاصدرا و حكمت متعاليه
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Islamic_philosophy (2617 words)

	5. Philosophy and Basic Beliefs
		These political philosophies sometimes have been related to Marxist philosophy and sometimes to democratic philosophies; however, each has acquired its own cultural approach, emphasizing that the people of its culture have a right and obligation not only to be free and have equal choice, but also to explore their own ethnic, emotional, and historical roots.
		But still, these philosophies are those of everyone--their hopes, their fears, their needs, their thoughts, and their desires all put together into systems of feeling and thinking that await the conscious, logical heat of consideration to become for each individual a philosophy of life.
		A real philosophy of life develops when a person compares his or her conscious and unconscious beliefs and decides which are right, which may be incorrect, and how they can be united to make a system that feels right, good, and true.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~jewel001/humanities/book/5philosophy.htm (6859 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		The Asharite (Arabic Ø§Ù„Ø£Ø´Ø¹Ø±ÙŠØ© al-ash`aryah) is a school of early Muslim philosophy that was instrumental in drastically changing the direction of Islamic philosophy, separating its development radically from that of philosophy in the Christian world.
		Most agree that the Asharites put an end to philosophy as such in the Muslim world, but permitted these methods to continue to be applied to science and technology.
		Ironically, the rigorous means by which the Asharites had reached their conclusions were largely forgotten by Muslims before The Renaissance, due in large part to the success of their effort to subordinate inquiry to a prior ethics - and assume ignorance was the norm for humankind.
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Asharite_.html (965 words)

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		Every philosopher who has endevored to articlate his or her thoughts in the realm of political philosophy must at one time or another consider the role of self-interest in society.
		The basis for this consideration begins in moral philosophy, as the needs and obligations of the individual are weighed against the good of the individual and in turn society.
		Such a philosophy of intelligence would help the U.S. government understand Islamic leaders “whose intellectual world was so different from our own.” To truly grasp a given situation, contend Shulsky and Schmitt, it is necessary to penetrate the surface of information to uncover what Strauss called “the hidden meaning” in political dealings.
	www.lycos.com /info/political-philosophy--miscellaneous.html (487 words)

	ipedia.com: Muslim Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Muslim of today also includes extremists that want to kill all those non-Muslims in the name of the Prophet.
		However, even though many Muslim extremists exist, most Muslims condemn the attacks and the Muslim extremist holy wars as it is against Muslim religion to kill or do bad to others.
		Muslims in China- A history of Islam in China.
	www.ipedia.com /muslim.html (1163 words)

	AKU-Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The methodological section explores the relevance of the humanities and social sciences to the study of Muslim cultures.
		This latter section will be sub-divided into three components: the formation of early Muslim scholarship; philosophy, science and art in Muslim societies; and contemporary debates on challenges to Muslims.
		This component examines the complex histories and cultures of Muslims from around 800 CE to 1800 CE.
	www.aku.edu /ismc/certcontent.shtml (404 words)

	Greek Philosophy - Crystalinks
		Clear unbroken lines of influence lead from early Greek philosophers, through early Muslim philosophy to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the secular sciences of the modern day.
		The history of philosophy in the West begins with the Greeks, and particularly with a group of philosophers commonly called the pre-Socratics.
		As it turns out, nearly all of the various cosmologies proposed by the early Greek philosophers are profoundly and demonstrably false, but this does not diminish their importance.
	www.crystalinks.com /greekphilosophy.html (446 words)

	The Other Club: Backward by choice
		Muslim philosophy in this regard seems to have led the West by miles.
		The literacy among Muslims is about thirty to thirty five percent on the average and among rural women it is only about two to four per cent.
		Muslim Fundamentalists are fond of claiming that the Koran miraculously predicted the findings of modern science, and that all of its factual scientific claims are flawless.
	otherclub.blogspot.com /2006/03/backward-by-choice.html (2395 words)

	Islamic science - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Muslim quote some verses from the Quran where they belive God is encouraging people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, to engage in different scientific studies, in order to conclude the existence of God.
		Muslims feel that this is a censuring the role the Islamic world contributed to the world of science.
		Thus, Muslims feel that the era that followed the Romans Era and is commonly refered to as the "Dark Ages", should fairly be named the "Muslim Era".
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Islamic_science (1184 words)

	[Islam-Online- Islamic]
		Early Christian philosophy, having been influenced by the Greeks alone, dealt with specific issues and attempted to find solutions to problems that Christianity was facing.
		On the Islamic side, such early Muslim philosophers as al Kindi and al Farabi also followed the same pattern, namely, their views, concerns, and comments were responses to Greek philosophers, in particular Plato and Aristotle.
		When reading early Islamic philosophy, one clearly gets the impression that it too was engaged only with the Greeks and that their central concerns became the Muslims' central concerns as well.
	www.islamonline.net /iol-english/qadaya/islamic-1/islamic1.asp (919 words)

	: ASP : CURIOUS : PHILOSOPHY : MAFTAB : PROBLEM OF EVIL - Islamherald.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This maybe because in the context of Muslim thought, the existence of God was a prerequisite.
		So we do not find Muslim philosophers arguing against the existence of God, on the contrary they are attempting to justify the qualities of God from a philosophical perspective.
		Early Muslim Aristotelian thinkers like Ibn Sina held that God is a necessary being, who had no other attributes besides His existence, and that all other beings emanated from the divine by necessity.
	www.islamherald.com /asp/curious/philosophy/maftab/problem_of_evil.asp (1829 words)

	The Islamic World to 1600: The Arts, Learning, and Knowledge (Philosophy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Many Muslim philosophers were influenced by the works of Aristotle and Plato, and struggled to apply the principles of these ancient Greeks to the Islamic world.
		Muslim philosophers were Muslims first, and philosophers second, however, and their faith in Islam thus led them to recognise that even reason could not be used to fully understand Allah or his knowledge.
		This complex debate between philosophy and theology was a major issue during the medieval period of learning in the Islamic world.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/islam/learning/phil.html (461 words)

	Medieval Philosophy
		Early on, the neoplatonism philosophy of Plotinus seemed to provide the most convenient intellectual support for religious doctrine.
		Although Augustine was significantly influenced by the moral philosophy of Cicero, he generally argued that the Stoics were excessively optimistic in their assessment of human nature.
		In De consolatione philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy), he maintained that commitment to rational discourse and decision-making is vital to the successful human life, even though it offers little prospect of avoiding the personal disasters fate holds for many of us.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/3b.htm (1886 words)

	Islamic science Summary
		Greek was the language of philosophy, and therefore of science, in the Mediterranean world from the time of the Greek city states through the period of late antiquity.
		Muslim astronomers developed a genre of advanced mathematical astronomical treatise that dealt with all aspects of astronomy, including planetary theory, observational techniques, and instrument-making.
		Muslims quote verses from the Qur'an where God is encouraging people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, to engage in different scientific studies, in order to prove the existence of God to those that don't believe it.
	www.bookrags.com /Islamic_science (7254 words)

	Southwestern University Department of Religion and Philosophy
		Metaphysics is the area of philosophy that traditionally addresses pivotal questions concerning both nature and what is beyond it: being and becoming, space and time, chaos and order, and the number and structures of realities.
		An examination of topics at the intersection of philosophy and politics, including historical and contemporary philosophical defenses and critiques of social and political orders, and analysis of political and social theories and concepts.
		A study of philosophy during the millennium when it was in closest relation to religion, be it Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or pagan.
	www.southwestern.edu /academic/religion/philosophy.php (1264 words)

	Karaism
		The sect crystallized in the Islamic East during the late ninth and early tenth centuries, calling forth stern reactions from the leaders of mainstream rabbinic Judaism.
		Early medieval Jewish thinkers of both Rabbanite and Karaite persuasion found the kalam (speculative theology) of the Muslim rationalistic school known as the Mu'tazila congenial to their outlook and adopted many Mu'tazilite ideas (see Ash'ariyya and Mu'tazila).
		Among Muslims, atomism was typically linked with occasionalism, continuous creation and the rejection of natural causality.
	www.muslimphilosophy.com /ip/rep/J052.htm (1571 words)

	Groundwork on Islamic Philosophy - M. Aftab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The rigor of intellectual thought in Islam has been lost and contemporary Muslim thinkers are faced with the enormous challenge of re-interpreting and integrating the tremendous intellectual achievements of the West with that of earlier Islamic thinkers and the Quran (the Muslim holy book).
		Ibn Rushd admits that philosophy may have its harms as a discipline, but these harms are no greater than those resulting from the study of medicine or law.
		Since, the study of philosophy is commanded by God Himself, it is obligatory, although it is possible to misuse the science for other purposes.
	www.ais.org /~maftab/philosophy.htm (10847 words)

	Ibn Rushd [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The earliest biographers and Muslim chroniclers speak little about his education in science and philosophy, where most interest from Western scholarship in him lies, but note his propensity towards the law and his life as a jurist.
		Since the early Muslims accepted the existence of apparent and allegorical meanings of texts, and since there is no consensus on these doctrines, such a charge can only be tentative.
		Interest in philosophy was primarily among the elite: scholars, royal patrons and civil servants.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/i/ibnrushd.htm (7398 words)

	Islamic History, Philosophy, and Scientific Thought
		Islamic Philosophy by the well-respected scholar of Islamic philosophy, Prof.
		Major Points in Islamic Philosophy, written by an American non-Muslim teacher of Philosophy, Wallace Provost, this article deals with a few of the issues that Muslim philosophers were concerned with.
		Islamic Medicine Edited by Shahid Athar, M.D., a Muslim physician and scholar, this is a collection of highly informative essays by a variety of physicians and scholars.
	www.uga.edu /islam/philosophy.html (995 words)

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