For many Western scholars and, more importantly, many Muslims, the very idea of an Islamic philosophy is a contradiction in terms: Strictly orthodox sunni Islam has never welcomed philosophic thought. Traditionists have always been hostile to philosophy, a foreign science, which led, they claimed, to heresy, doubt, and total unbelief. In this, the traditionists fears were well-founded, for many of the philosophers developed views that were far from orthodox, and others, especially those hostile to the nascent Sunnism, committed themselves entirely to the guidance of reason as that was understood in Greek philosophy, and gave no more than lip service to Islamic religion. Thus the story of Islamic philosophy is, in part, the story of the tension between reason and revelation.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:05:02 +0000
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