Work
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Overview
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Arabic: تهافت الفلاسفة, romanized: Tahāfut al-Falāsifa) is a landmark 11th-century work by the Muslim polymath al-Ghazali, a student of the Asharite school of Islamic theology, criticizing the Avicennian school of early Islamic philosophy. Muslim philosophers such as Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and al-Farabi (Alpharabius) are denounced in this book, as they follow Greek philosophy even when, in the author's perception, it contradicts Islam. The text was dramatically successful, and marked a milestone in the ascendance of the Asharite school within Islamic philosophy and theological discourse.
The book favors faith over philosophy in matters specifically concerning metaphysics or knowledge of the divine.
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Philosophers who discussed The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Related ideas
- Ibn Tufayl
- Faith
- Avicenna
- Philosophy
- Al-Ghazali
- Avicennism
- Modal realism
- Islamic philosophy
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Early Islamic philosophy
- Al-Farabi
- Latin
- Ash'arism
- Metaphysics
- Heresy
- Eternity
- Best of all possible worlds
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Scientific law
- Polymath
- Scientific method
- Aristotelianism
- World history (field)
- Occasionalism
Place in the tradition
Part of Averroism.
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