Period
Classical Islamic
c. 800 – c. 1200 CE
The era of the great falsafa philosophers, who built on Greek philosophy translated into Arabic, from al-Kindi to Averroes.
The translation of Greek philosophical and scientific works into Arabic, centred on Baghdad from the late eighth century, gave rise to a philosophical movement known as falsafa. Its leading figures developed Aristotelian and Neoplatonic ideas in original directions and debated their place alongside Islamic theology. The end date is conventional: philosophy in the Islamic world continued long after it.
- Traditions
- Arabic and Islamic
Philosophers
- al-Kindic. 800 – c. 870 CE
- Abu Bakr al-Razi865–925 CE
- al-Farabic. 870 – c. 950 CE
- Abu Yaqub al-Sijistanifl. 934–971 CE
- Avicennac. 970 – 1037 CE
- Hamid al-Din al-Kirmanifl. 996–1020 CE
- Nasir Khusraw1004–1060
- Omar Khayyamc. 1048 – after 1124
- al-Ghazalic. 1056 – 1111
- Avempacebefore 1085 – 1139
- al-Shahrastani1086–1153
- Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani1097–1131
- Averroes1126–1198
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi1149–1210
- Suhrawardi1154–1191
Terms on this page
- falsafa
- Philosophy in the Arabic Aristotelian tradition, above all that of Avicenna and his followers, which al-Ghazālī both criticised and drew on.
Sources
- Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World, Oxford University Press