Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Ideas

    Taqlid

    idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    التقليد · al-muqallidīn · al-taqlīd · following authority · imitation · mere conformity · muqallidū · taqlīd · the milk of conformity · uncritical following

    spoken of as

    2 expressions

    Conformity“taqlīd”1 mention

    Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi (Arabic)

    Its meaning has thus emerged, praise be to God, exalted be He, in a fashion that the palates of the masters of verification find sweet and that goes down easily in the throats of sucklings who have not been weaned from suckling the milk of conformity out of the successive drippings of the udders of their forebears.
    ch. 3 · printed page 42

    Uncritical following of others“taqlīd”1 mention

    Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq (Arabic)

    And this judgement follows either from his uncritical following of others, or from a corrupt opinion.
    ch. 2 · printed page 30

    in the texts

    Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalabMedieval · Arabic

    Adherence to a school authority, which the author concedes as a working method but denies as an excuse: God never made following one's imam obligatory, so taqlīd is no plea for shed blood.

    For it is incumbent upon the judge and the mufti that he keep God Most High before his eyes and go slowly in giving judgement by way of following authority (*taqlīd*), and above all in the spilling of blood;
    the mālikīs · printed page 18
    So do not believe that your school is the best of the schools and the dearest to God Most High, for you have no proof of that, nor has your opponent either.
    the shāfiʻīs · printed page 22
    leave what makes you doubt for what does not make you doubt, and take precaution for your religion, and let your ambition not be to give judgement by your own school;
    the ḥanafīs · printed page 19

    Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāqMedieval · Arabic

    Taking a judgement on trust, named as one of the two origins of the mistaken evaluation that breeds vice.

    And this judgement follows either from his uncritical following of others, or from a corrupt opinion.
    ch. 2 · printed page 30

    Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhiRenaissance · Arabic

    Taqlīd, uncritical acceptance of inherited doctrine, the vice against which the gloss defines its own method.

    Its meaning has thus emerged, praise be to God, exalted be He, in a fashion that the palates of the masters of verification find sweet and that goes down easily in the throats of sucklings who have not been weaned from suckling the milk of conformity out of the successive drippings of the udders of their forebears.
    ch. 3 · printed page 42
    You have asked — may God strengthen you with a spirit from Him and with fair success, and raise you from the lowland of mere conformity (taqlīd) to the high grounds of verification (taḥqīq) — about what occurs in the exordium of al-Zawrāʼ, namely his words, 'and blessing from Him upon the rank that comprehends all His attributes';
    ch. 3 · printed page 39

    Risālat al-Wāridāt19th Century · Arabic

    Taqlīd, the uncritical acceptance of received authority: the vice the treatise is written against, ascribed alike to the transmitters who forbid the sciences, to the theologians, and to philosophers who repeat their chief, and wittily assimilated to qayd so that the imitator becomes a qualified and therefore contingent, deficient thing.

    So, you who are qualified by the qualification of uncritical imitation (*taqlīd*):
    ch. 2 · printed page 10
    The imitators of the philosophers (*ḥukamāʼ*) have said — and it is the view their chief adopted — that the Creator's knowledge, exalted be He, of universals (*kulliyyāt*) is by the impression of forms (*irtisām al-ṣuwar*) in His essence.
    ch. 5 · printed page 14
    — And how astonishing are the mutakallimūn and the imitative philosophers:
    ch. 3 · printed page 12