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"In this work, Muhsin Mahdi distills more than four decades of research to offer an authoritative analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy.
Mahdi, whose research brought to light writings of Alfarabi previously known only through medieval bibliographical references, presents this great thinker as his contemporaries and followers would have seen him: as a philosopher who sought to lay the foundations for a new understanding of revealed religion and its relation to the tradition of political philosophy.".
"Mahdi begins with a survey of Islamic philosophy and a discussion of its historical background. He then gives a general sense of the philosophical debate, or an introduction, to the interrelated spheres of philosophy, political thought, theology, and jurisprudence within Islam and, more particularly, within medieval Islam at the time of Alfarabi. Mahdi turns to Alfarabi's concept of "the virtuous city" in the second part of the book.
Here, philosophy is distinguished from science on the one hand and religion on the other. Mahdi concludes with an examination of the work that is key to understanding Alfarabi's political thought, the trilogy known as the Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle." "An philosophical engagement with the writings of and about this great thinker, Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islami Political Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval political philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
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Philosophy, Philosophie et religion, Islam et politique, Politische Philosophie, Religion, Islamic philosophy, Et Aristote, Politieke filosofie, Droit islamique, Filosofia política, Islamische Philosophie, Islamitische filosofie, Filosofia árabe, Philosophie politique, Political science, Filosofia medieval, Pensée politique et sociale, Islam et philosophie, Philosophie islamique, Political science, philosophyShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy
August 1, 2001, University Of Chicago Press
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0226501868 9780226501864
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"First, I beg leave to speak of our Church Establishment, which is the first of our prejudices, not a prejudice destitute of reason, but involving in it profound and extensive wisdom."
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