Classification of knowledge in Islam : a study in Islamic philosophies of science/
Osman Bakar
- Cambridge, U.K. : Islamic Texts Society, 1998
- xvii, 312 p. ; 23 cm.
The life, works, and significance of al-Fārābī -- Al-Fārābī -- The methodological basis of the hierarchy of the sciences -- The ontological and the ethical bases of the hierarchy of the sciences -- Classification and description of linguistic science and logic -- Classification and description of the philosophical sciences -- The life, works, and significance of al-Ghazzālī -- Al-Ghazzālī's classification of seekers after knowledge -- Al-Ghazzālī's classification of the sciences -- The life, works, and significance of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī -- Quṭb al-Dīn's classification of the sciences -- The philosophical bases of the three classifications : similarities and differences.
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Classification of sciences.Islamic philosophy.Science—Philosophy.