عنوان

Reconciling Islam and Philosophy in the Virtuous City: Rereading al-Farabi's al-Madinah al-Fadilah Within 10th-Century Islamic Thought

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انگلیسی

Reconciling Islam and Philosophy in the Virtuous City: Rereading al-Farabi's al-Madinah al-Fadilah Within 10th-Century Islamic Thought

[Thesis]

Justin M. Nigro

Blankinship, Khalid Y.

Temple University

2017

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Committee members: Limberis, Vasiliki M.

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-79327-7

M.A.

Religion

Temple University

2017

In his tenth-century work, al-Madīnah al-Fādilah , the Muslim philosopher Abū Nasr al-Fārābī posits a solution to the internecine hostilities between Muslim intellectual communities which occurred as a result of conflicting positions on the relationship between revelation and reason, religion and philosophy. In this work al-Fārābī demonstrates that both religion and philosophy are derived from, and dependent upon, divine revelation from Allah to the Prophet. Modern scholars of al-Fārābī interpret his work differently, reading him as an enemy of religion who subordinates Islam to philosophy. In this thesis, after establishing al-Fārābī within the historical and ideological context of tenth-century Islamic thought I analyze al-Madīnah al-Fādilah in light of a commentary on the text by Richard Walzer, who is among those scholars who read al-Fārābī as an enemy of Islam who merely reproduces Greek philosophy in Arabic. Contrasting the original Arabic text with Walzer's English translation and commentary I apply readings of several of al-Fārābī's other works as an interpretive lens, through which the correct reading of al-Madīnah al-Fādilah is made clear. I further analyze the text in light of Islamic Scripture, by which I demonstrate that the foundation on which al-Fārābī's cosmology is founded has precedence within the Qur'ān. Working in the tenth century al-Fārābī sought to reconcile the conflicting views of his fellow Muslims, in order to bring peace to the community, the Muslim Ummah. Al-Madīnah al-Fādilah should be regarded as his crowning achievement in these efforts.

Philosophy; Islamic Studies; History

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Active intellect;First cause;Islamic philosophy;Prophecy;Revelation;al-Farabi

Dardas, Latefa Ali

Blankinship, Khalid Y.

Religion

Temple University

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