Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

A Compilation of Islamic Philosophy and Theology [Edited]

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Preface
• Chapter One: What is Philosophy?
• The absolute existent and its laws
• The Definition of Philosophy
• Questions
• Notes
• Chapter Two: Research Methodology in Philosophy 
• A Priori and Posterior Propositions
• The first Point
• The Second Point
• Rational and Empirical Forms of Knowledge
• Philosophy is Rational Knowledge
• Example: The law of Causality is not empirical
• Demonstration
• Questions
• Notes
• Chapter Three: The Relation between Science and Philosophy 
• The impact of science on Philosophy
• Philosophy after Science
• The Scientific Theory raises a Philosophical Question
• The Scientific Theory as a step to Philosophical Demonstration
• The Scientific Theory determines the Extensions of the Philosophical Theory 
• Philosophy before Science
• The Impact of Philosophy on Science
• The Dependence of Science on Philosophy in Proving a Subject
• Dependence of Science on Philosophy in Ensuring the Universal and Necessity of its Laws
• Dependence of Science on Other Philosophical Presuppositions
• The Priority of Philosophy over Science
• Chapter Four: Is Learning Philosophy Necessary? 
• Necessity and its Criterion
• The uses of Philosophy and their evolution
• 1- Satisfying the Sense of Curiosity
• 2- Removing Double Ignorance
• 3- The Indispensable Foundation of Life
• Defining the Border between Sense and Reason
• 1- A Holistic Outlook
• 2- A Profound Outlook
• Providing The Presuppositions of the other fields of Study
• Providing The Fundamental Principle of Systems and Movement
• Laying the Foundation of Worldviews
• Questions
• Chapter Five: Necessity, Impossibility, and Possibility 
• Necessity
• Necessity and impossibility
• Impossibility by essence and impossibility by other
• Necessity by essence and necessity byother
• Possibility by essence
• Compatibly of possibility by essence with necessity or impossibility by other
• Question
• Notes For further explanation
• Chapter Six: Ashariyya and Mu‘tazila
• 1. Historical Survey
• 2. Cosmology
• 3. The Five Principles
• 4. The Unity of God
• 5. Divine Justice and Human Destiny
• Chapter Six: Ibn Sina
• Life and Works
• Division of sciences
• Logic
• Physics
• Metaphysics
• Notes
• Chapter Seven: Mulla Sadra: His Teachings
• Mulla Sadra and earlier Islamic Philosophy
• The synthesis of previous schools of thought and modes of knowing
• The study of being
• Trans-substantial motion and creation of the world
• The union of the intelligent and the intelligible
• The imaginal world and the archetypes
• Eschatology and resurrection
• Some other principles of Sadrian teachings
• Mulla Sadra’s Qur’anic commentaries
• The influence of Mulla Sadra
• Chapter Eight: Al-Kindi
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Chapter Nine: Al-Farabi
• Life and works
• Logic, phIilosophy of language and epistemology
• Psychology and philosphy of mind
• Metaphysics
• Practical philosophy
• Al-Farabi’s subsequent influence
• Notes
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Index of term