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The Death of falsafa as a Self-Description of Philosophy

2021
Al-Ghazali’s Precipitance of the Philosophers (Tahafut al-falasifa), published in 488/1095, changed the way the label falsafa was understood in Arabic scientific literature. Falsafa is a calque from the Greek word philosophía, and before al-Ghazali it was widely understood in a sense similar to the Greek word, namely as a reference to the scientific ...
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Al-Kindi and the Rise of Falsafa

2017
In this chapter we introduce the thought of al-Kindi—almost unanimously taken to be the first of the great Falasifa—and present him as a successful salesperson for Falsafa in the Muslim world. Even if his arguments are not all entirely successful, they are all ingenious. We present his thought as unified under the banner of what we call Evidentialism—a
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Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Falsafa?

Contributions To Hermeneutics, 2022
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