Arabo Islamic Philosphy Flashcards
(53 cards)
When did the Abbasid period start and end?
750 to 1258 (half a millennium)
Abu ’l-‘Abbas ‘Abd Allah is known as ?
‘alSaffah’ (lit. ‘the blood spiller’)
السفاح
Baghdad: is known as ?
“The City of Peace”
Madinat al-Salam
Abu Ja‘far Muhammad ‘alMansur’ and Harun b. al-Mahdi,
‘al-Rashid are?
Abbasids
Bayt al-Hikma “House of Wisdom”
was founded by?
‘Abd Allah b. al-Rashid, ‘al-Ma’mun’
Who was the first director and scholar of Bayt Al-Hikma? and he was the teacher of?
court physician and scholar Yuhanna bin Masawayh
Hunayn b. Ishaq
Who was considered the greatest
scholar in the entire history of
the translation movement in
Islam?
Hunayn b. Ishaq
Hunayn b. Ishaq is also called?
Joannitius
Hunayn b.Ishaq is a ?
Iraqi Nestorian translator,
scholar, physician and scientist.
Who was the director of the Bayt al-Hikma
after Yuhanna bin Masawayh?
Hunayn b. Ishaq
Hunayn b. Ishaq translated more than -- works. He was awarded an amount of ---- equivalent to the weight of the books translated.
31
gold
Hunayn ibn Ishaq was accompanied by his son
———— and his nephew ———-
Ishaq b. Hunayn
Hubaysh
It was quite normal at times for Hunayn to translate
—– material into ——-, and have his nephew
finish by translating the text from Syriac to
————.
Greek
Syriac
Arabic
The —— were able to assimilate almost the
whole of ancient learning (Greek philosophy and
science, Persian literary and political wisdom and
Indian medicine and mathematics).
arabs
———— was the last of the great
schools of Classical pagan philosophy.
Neoplatonism
A synthesis of ———, —————–,
————–, and —————-, which
provided an esoteric interpretation of
classical Greek Paganism, it incorporated
philosophy, mysticism and theosophy.
Platonism, Aristotelianism,
Stoicism, and Pythagoreanism
For– centuries it served as a last bastion of
Pagan wisdom and Esoteric philosophy in
an increasingly hostile ——- dominated
empire.
3
Christian
The Neoplatonic doctrine was originally -----------; however through the centuries other metaphysical systems were absorbed into it until it became a ----------------doctrine.
Greek
heterogeneous
Principally Neoplatonism is a type of idealistic
————. It states the ultimate reality of
the universe is held by an infinite, perfect
—-.
monism
one
Al Kindi is a ——-,——-, and ——- born in ——-
polymath
mathematician
physician
Kufa
“The Philosopher of
the Arabs” is?
Al Kindi
Greek Philosphy had a far reaching impact on ——- intellectual and ——– life in the ninth century, as it gave fresh impetus to the scholarly examination of ——–
islamic
cultural
dogma
It was —————– who first
introduced Greek philosophy and underscored its
conformity with the Qur’anic world view.
Abu Yusuf Ya’qub al-Kindi
Abu Bakr al-Razi followed
—— and ——- in philosphy
Plato and Socrates
