The philosophers of Islam
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فلاسفة الاسلام · falāsifat al-Islām · the philosophers of Islam · الفريق الاول
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Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The Muslim philosophers and theologians whose opinions on the jinn form the book's second aim; their writing is judged close to what the scholars of the People of the Book held, except where fancy carried the investigation past its bound.
Whoever examines what the philosophers of Islam wrote sees it to be close to the course the scholars of the People of the Book (*ahl al-kitāb*) took in the matter, except, to be sure, in certain fancies with which the investigation ran to excess, so that they drew away from the purpose — as is the way of everything that passes its bound.
this is a book that investigates the doctrines (*madhāhib*) of the Arabs (*aʻrāb*) concerning the jinn, and what the philosophers of Islam said about them — a question that has not ceased, and does not cease, to be a subject for investigators in every religious community and every sect.
The doctrines (*madhāhib*) of the Arabs (*aʻrāb*) and of the philosophers of Islam concerning the jinn
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Muslim thinkers who fused Greek principles with Islamic teachings and, as followers of Plato and Aristotle, held an eternal prime matter and rejected creation from sheer nothingness.
And men excelled in those philosophical sciences and framed a philosophy composed of the Greek principles and the Islamic teachings — and these are the philosophers of Islam, the greatest of them being the philosopher Ibn Sīnā (1), and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Fārābī (1), and Ibn Rushd of al-Andalus of the flying renown;
As for the first party, that is, the philosophers of Islam, the followers of the philosophers Plato and Aristotle:
The doctrine of the philosophers of Islam on matter and spirit