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" Reconciling Islam and Philosophy in the Virtuous City: Rereading al-Farabi's al-Madinah al-Fadilah Within 10th-Century Islamic Thought "
Justin M. Nigro
Blankinship, Khalid Y.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804545
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TL49377
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1907030583; 10269195
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Dardas, Latefa Ali
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Reconciling Islam and Philosophy in the Virtuous City: Rereading al-Farabi's al-Madinah al-Fadilah Within 10th-Century Islamic Thought\ Justin M. NigroBlankinship, Khalid Y.
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Temple University
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2017
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M.A.
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Religion
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2017
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143
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Committee members: Limberis, Vasiliki M.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-79327-7
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In his tenth-century work, <i>al-Madīnah al-Fādilah </i>, 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 <i>al-Madīnah al-Fādilah</i> 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 <i> al-Madīnah al-Fādilah</i> 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 <i> Ummah. Al-Madīnah al-Fādilah</i> should be regarded as his crowning achievement in these efforts.
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Philosophy; Islamic Studies; History
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Active intellect;First cause;Islamic philosophy;Prophecy;Revelation;al-Farabi
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Blankinship, Khalid Y.
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ReligionTemple University
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