ANTI-PHILOSOPHICAL ATTITUDES IN THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT
İSLÂM DÜŞÜNCE TARİHİNDE FELSEFE KARŞITI TAVIRLAR

Author : Turgut AKYÜZ
Number of pages : 79-87

Abstract

We can summarize the attitudes taken towards the philosophy in the Islamic world under three headings. The first group represents the aspects of those who accept philosophy as a scientific activity. In this context, the main philosophers such as Ibn Sina and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi will be taken as the basis. The followers of the second group are those who are against philosophy, and who have different reasons and different philosophical definitions. We would like to discuss this group through the major thinkers such as Gazzali and Ibn Taymiyyah. The representatives of the third group are those who are eclectics, trying to reconcile Islamic religious sciences with philosophy. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi conducted this activity in favor of Kalam, but the attitude of Ibn Rushd was in favor of philosophy. In other words, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi included the sciences such as Metaphysics and Logic into the Islamic sciences, especially the Kalam, but Ibn Rushd defended Metaphysics and Logic as a counterpoint to Kalam. We also aim to contact the notion of philosophy that has been discussed in the New Age Western philosophy through examples of Descartes and Kant, as well as some of the controversies that have been made in our country in recent years. The article will be based on the philosophers own Works and the second sources will be used if necessary.

Keywords

Religion-Science-Philosophy Relations, Islamic Philosophy, Faculties of Theology

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