Islamic Philosophy And Theology
W. Montgomery Watt 1985 Edinburgh University Press 22 George Square, Edinburgh First published 1962 Second edition 198 s Set in Linoterm Trump Medieval by Speedspools, Edinburgh, and printed in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Ltd, Trowbridge in Publication Data Watt, W. Montgomery Islamic philosophy and theology an extended survey 2nd ed. 1. Islam Doctrines I. Title
The Attraction Of Greek Thought
Within the culture associated with the Islamic religion there has always been a tendency to maintain that Islam is self-sufficient and that in Qur an and Hadith it contains in essentials all the religious and moral truth required by all humanity to the end of time. Muslims have accordingly been hesitant about accepting ideas from other intellectual traditions, and especially from the Judaeo-Christian tradition because of the theory they developed that the Jewish and Christian scriptures had...
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x. Hanbalism H. Laoust, art. Han bila in EI2, and also 'Le hanbalisme sous le califat de Bagdad', Revue des tudes Islamiques, xxvii 1959 , 67-128. G AL, i.173 GAS, i.194. 3. Ibn-Sam' n Ab -l-Husayn Muhammad GALS, i.360 GAS, i.667. 4. Ibn-Batta GALS, i.311 GAS, i-si4f. H. Laoust, La Profession de foi d'Ibn Batta, Damascus 1958, edition and translation,- review of this by Louis Gardet, 'L'importance historique du Hanbalisme d'apr s un livre recent', Arabica, vi.125-32. 5. Q diriyya English...
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i. Al-F r b GAL, i.232-6 GALS, i.375-7, 9S7f. EI2, art. al- F r b by R. Walzer his book 'On the Principles of die Views of the People of the Excellent State', often called for short Al-Mad na al-f dila, has been translated into German by F. Dieterici as Der Musterstaat Leiden 1900 and into English by R. Walzer as Al-Farabi on the Perfect State, Oxford 1982 a short work on politics is Fusul al-madani Aphorisms of the Statesman, edited and translated by D. M. Dunlop, Cambridge 1961. 1. EI2, arts....
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1. For 'the general religious movement' and similar matters see Formative Period, 63-81. 2. Ignaz Goldziher, Muhammedanische Studien, vol.2, Halle 1890 translated as Muslim Studies, vol.2, London 1971 . Joseph Schacht, The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence, Oxford 1950 summarized in An Introduction to Islamic Law, Oxford 1964. Fuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol.i, Leiden 1967, 5 3-84, 'Einf hrung' to the section on Hadlth, summarizing a longer work in Turkish. Further...
The First Wave Of Hellenism
POLITICS AND THEOLOGY UNDER THE 'ABBASIDS When the 'Abbasid dynasty came to power in 750, their claim to the caliphate was based on the assertion that the imamate had passed from 'All to Muhammad ibn-al-Hanafiyya, then to his son Abu-Hashim, and that the latter had designated as his successor the father of the first two 'Abbasid caliphs. Before long, however, this particular claim to legitimacy seems to have been found unsatisfactory, and the caliph al-Mahdi 775-85 replaced it by the claim that...