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Week 8 Flashcards

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Falsafa

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Arabic term for love of knowledge (started under Abbasids(

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Bayt al-Hikma

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House of Wisdom

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Al-Kindi

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Physician
Against bid’a: believed greek philosophy should be welcomed
Attempted to prove divinity of Islam through philosophy

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Bid’a

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Religious innovation - heresy

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Al-Razi (Rahzes)

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A physician
Did not believe prophetic guidance was necessary
People should have intellectual freedom

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Al-Farabi

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Dubbed the second teacher (Aristotle the first)
Expert in Logic, Metaphysics, philosophy
Approved of prophethood

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Doctrine of Existence

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The belief that God is an exception to creation needing a source. (Avicenna)

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Al-Ghazali

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Didn’t consider himself to be a philosopher, but was.

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Averroes

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Believed greek philosophy which he called wisdom (hikma) was complementary to shari’a law.

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