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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Classification of knowledge in Islam</title>
    <subTitle>a study in Islamic philosophies of science</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bakar, Osman</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Islamic Texts Society</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1998</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">9999</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>xvii, 312 p. ;   23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Osman Bakar</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Classification of sciences.Islamic philosophy.Science—Philosophy</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">BL240.309  .BO01 1998</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">97809466217120946621713</identifier>
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