Prophetic niche in the virtuous city : the concept of Hikmah in early Islamic thought / by Hikmet Yaman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaman, Hikmet.

Series:

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 81.

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science : texts and studies ; v. 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic philosophy--History.

Islamic philosophy.

Knowledge, Theory of (Islam).

Islam--Doctrines--History.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book analyzes the concept of ḥikmah in early Islamic texts within a network of multiple conceptual interrelationships in the cross-disciplinary context of Muslim works, roughly up to al-Ghazali's lifetime. The word ḥikmah has a wide spectrum of connotations in these texts, because it basically contains all knowledge within human reach, and accordingly, received a range of diverse scholarly treatments. This work contextualizes ḥikmah in a nuanced fashion in the collective usage of early Muslim authors, mainly by lexicographers, exegetes, philosophers, and Sufis. For the first time in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies, particularly in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism, this study explores the concept of ḥikmah in an all-embracing capacity. Ḥikmah is a central concept of Islamic thinking, related to almost all intellectual disciplines of Muslim scholarly tradition, but it has been insufficiently underlined and treated in earlier western scholarship.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

PART ONE ḤIKMAH IN EARLY ARABIC LEXICOGRAPHY

Chapter One: The Derivation of the Word Ḥikmah

Chapter Two: Ḥikmah in Terminological Dictionaries

Chapter Three: Contemporary Western Scholarship on the Meaning of Ḥikmah

PART TWO ḤIKMAH IN EARLY MUSLIM EXEGETICAL LITERATURE

Chapter Four: General Definitions in the Qurʾān

Chapter Five: Ḥikmah and the Prophets

Chapter Six: Ḥikmah in Relation to Ḥakīm and Ḥukm

PART THREE ḤIKMAH IN EARLY SUFI LITERATURE

Chapter Seven: Ḥikmah and the Earliest Sufi Authorities

Chapter Eight: Ḥikmah in the Context of Early Sufi Exegetical Works

Chapter Nine: Ḥikmah in Early Sufi Manuals and Treatises

Chapter Ten: The Merit of Ḥikmah

PART FOUR ḤIKMAH IN EARLY PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE

Chapter Eleven: Ḥikmah in the Pre-Islamic Philosophical World

Chapter Twelve: Ḥikmah in the Islamic Philosophical World

Conclusion

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-281) and indexes.

ISBN:

90-04-19106-2

OCLC:

812961399

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004191068 DOI