TY - BOOK ID - 77937000 TI - Prophetic niche in the virtuous city PY - 2011 SN - 9004191062 9789004191068 9789004186620 900418662X PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Islam KW - Islamic philosophy KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) KW - Islamic epistemology KW - Doctrines KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937000 AB - This book analyzes the concept of ḥikmah in early Islamic texts within a network of multiple conceptual interrelationships in the cross-disciplinary context of Muslim works, roughly up to al-Ghazali's lifetime. The word ḥikmah has a wide spectrum of connotations in these texts, because it basically contains all knowledge within human reach, and accordingly, received a range of diverse scholarly treatments. This work contextualizes ḥikmah in a nuanced fashion in the collective usage of early Muslim authors, mainly by lexicographers, exegetes, philosophers, and Sufis. For the first time in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies, particularly in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism, this study explores the concept of ḥikmah in an all-embracing capacity. Ḥikmah is a central concept of Islamic thinking, related to almost all intellectual disciplines of Muslim scholarly tradition, but it has been insufficiently underlined and treated in earlier western scholarship. ER -