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Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Alfarabi’s Enumeration of the Sciences

1975; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-94-010-1781-7_5

2214-7942

Muḥsin Mahdī,

Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies

One of the striking features of classical Islamic philosophy is the prominence of political philosophy and the incorporation of jurisprudence and theology into philosophy by subordinating them to political philosophy. During the ten centuries that separated Cicero from Alfarabi, one cannot point to a single great philosopher for whom the problem of philosophy was inseparable from the problem of political philosophy or in whose writings political philosophy occupies a massive, central, or decisive position. Political philosophy may not be totally absent from pagan and Christian Platonism in the Hellenistic period, but it is marginal and subterranean, or else overwhelmed by metaphysics, theology, and mysticism.1