Prophetic Niche in the Virtuous City

The Concept of Hikmah in Early Islamic Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-18662-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 81, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

This book analyzes the concept of hikmah 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 hikmah has a wide spectrum of connotations in these texts, because it basically contains all knowledge within human reach, and accordingly, received a range of diverse scholarly treatments. This work contextualizes hikmah in a nuanced fashion in the collective usage of early Muslim authors, mainly by lexicographers, exegetes, philosophers, and Sufis. For the first time in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies, particularly in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism, this study explores the concept of hikmah in an all-embracing capacity. Ikmah is a central concept of Islamic thinking, related to almost all intellectual disciplines of Muslim scholarly tradition, but it has been insufficiently underlined and treated in earlier western scholarship.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in intellectual history, Islamic thought, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Qur'anic studies, Arabic lexicography, the history of Islamic technical concepts, western scholarship on classical Islamic literature, as well as classical philologists, theologians, and orientalists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yaman, Hikmet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Yaman, Hikmet
Hikmet Yaman, Ph.D. (2008) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor at Divinity School, Ankara University, Turkey. He has published on philosophical and mystical epistemologies in Islamic thought.