Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Two terms traditionally used in the Islamic world are sometimes translated as philosophy—falsafa (lit. 'philosophy'), which refers to philosophy as well as logic, mathematics, and physics; and kalam (lit. 'speech'), which refers to a rationalist form of Scholastic Islamic theology which includes the schools of Ash'arism, Maturidism and Mu'tazilism.
Early Islamic philosophy began with al-Kindi in the 2nd century of the Islamic calendar (early 9th century CE) and declined with Ibn Rushd (Averroes) in the 6th century AH (late 12th century CE), broadly coinciding with the period known as the Islamic Golden Age. The death of Ibn Rushd effectively marked the end of a specific discipline of Islamic philosophy usually called...
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Calligraphic name of Allah in Arabic, copied from Public Domain artwork
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Double-leaf frontispiece from "The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity". 20 x 17 cm (each). Baghdad, ...
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Hossein Nasr at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on October 1, 2007.
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Depicted person: Muhammad Iqbal – South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician (1877–1938)
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Manuscript of Sughrat (Socrates) belongs to a 13th century Seljuk illustrator. It is currently kept ...