عنوان

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

Number

TL49377

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

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

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Justin M. Nigro

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Blankinship, Khalid Y.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Temple University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

143

Text of Note

Committee members: Limberis, Vasiliki M.

Text of Note

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

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Religion

Body granting the degree

Temple University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

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

Subject Term

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

Dardas, Latefa Ali

Blankinship, Khalid Y.

Subdivision

Religion

Temple University

Call Number

1907030583; 10269195

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[Thesis]

276903

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