/lit/ - Literature

I now have the power to make straight lines equal to a given line in any direction

>>16400713
Religion:
>Quran: translation Abdel Haleem
>The Study Quran: good english exegesis that synthesizes many different exegeses throughout history
It's better to read the Quran through an exegesis anyway because the Quran is not supposed to be read like a novel, it's a combination of poetry and prose, it is not a "closed" book in that it refers to things outside the text often. Because of that you probably need a translation of the Bible to obtain the necessary biblical background.

History:
>Muhammad at Mecca by W. Montgomery Watt
>Muhammad at Medina by W. Montgomery Watt
Just get the basics down pat so you understand the context, then you can pick whatever flavor of historian you like whether religious or revisionist

Theology/Philosophy:
>Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps by Peter Adamson
Best compilation of Islamic medieval philosophical and theological debates in the English language, if you want to understand how Muslim philosophy was influenced by the Greeks and itself later influenced European scholastic thought and early Renaissance philosophy, Peter Adamson is a very thorough scholar of the history of philosophy.

Law:
>A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni Usul Al-fiqh by Wael B. Hallaq
This author is extremely well written and rigorous and has many other books related to legal and theological debates of the early Islamic period.

my hero, im suprised a muslim philosopher even existed, let alone allow a statue of him to be built

[youtube] https://youtu.be/_WACqMspX8I[/youtube]

Some Americans make cringe so fucking hard. Their favorite word is 'choice.' They 'choose' their life. They think they can decide on shit. Bimbo in the video and many others like her think they have free will. When the fuck will you learn

Pic unrelated

>His work include Aristotelian and islamic philosophy, theology, logic, mathematics, physics, medicine, astronomy, politics, law, geography, music
>His commentaries were crucial for Europeans to understand some of Aristotle and Plato's work
>Had a comical beef with Al-ghazali, responding to his book: The incoherence of philosophers with The incoherence of incoherence
>Has his own plant
>Has his own lunar crator
Islamic polymaths were vital in the process of understanding the achievements of the greeks, and they had their own contributions to many subject of scientific value, namely medicine, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics and pseudo-scientific subjects like Alchemy and divine mechanics.
Is there a reason why they are always absent when discussing philosophy?

>>5961621

From what I can tell, he wasn't aggressively against Sufis as Ibn Arabi was present at his funeral and respected him as a scholar. But Ibn Rushd tended to believe that what the Sufis claimed as gnostic secrets, he and others could reach through reason.

He also didn't like al-Ghazali because he felt Ghazali was a bit dishonest, presenting himself as a "Asharite with the Asharites, a philosopher with the philosophers, and a Sufi with the Sufis," referencing al-Ghazali's own proficiency in the terms of these fields which he used to argue for or against them. Ibn Rushd had problems with Sufis because from his perspective, what truth they had could be demonstrated by men such as a himself easily through an independent use of one's reasoning and didn't need a swearing of loyalty to some proclaimed gnostic, and if it couldn't be demonstrated through reason, chances were it was untrue. This didn't mean that Ibn Rushd didn't believe in revelation, just that for him revelation was needed more for the sake of the common people, not for the men of reason.

Ibn Sina, in contrast, felt that there indeed existed things beyond the capacity of human reasoning to understand, but felt that this shouldn't be an excuse for gnostics to spout contradicting statement that seem illogical and just say "well, you just don't know what I know." For Ibn Sina, a mystical experience may have let someone in on something beyond human reasoning to fully understand, but it couldn't be BENEATH reason.

And so, in Ibn Sina's work, you find not only the typical philosophical stuff, but you also find plenty of things which reflect an influence of Shi'ism and/or Sufism on his thought.

>>5059937