Aziz Hilal Doctor of Arabic Philosophy icon-calendar Wednesday October 3ʳᵈ, 2018 Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Ǧābirī (d. 2010) supported the idea of an epistemological break between the philosophical thought of the Arab East and Arab West. According to him, thinking in the East devolved, especially with Avicenna (d. 428/1037), into Gnosticism and
Aziz Hilal PhD in Arabic philosophy icon-calendar Tuesday October 25ᵗʰ, 2016 In his Kitāb al-ǧadal, al-Fārābī (d. 339/950) mentions a “fourth philosophy”. What he intends with this expression is a philosophy that would be adapted to non-specialists, both technicians in a particular given art (medicine, grammar, poetry…) and simple people
Aziz Hilal Doctor of Philosophy icon-calendar November 27, 2014 For al-Fārābī, philosophy is the eminent way to reach the knowledge of God and the source of religion. Religion itself is only a way to teach the “masses”.
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