Abstract
: There are different intellectual traditions and schools of thought
existing in the world. Due to their basis, ages, fundamental principles,
nature, objectives, and scope, each has its own identity and prominent
features. For example, Early Greek Philosophy is an attempt to rise from
sensuous to pure thought, Medieval Western Philosophy is scholastic by its
nature, while Modern Western Thought is a struggle to harmonize rational
with empirical to some extent. Apart from all other intellectual movements
and philosophical traditions of the world, Muslim Thought has its specific
definition, fundamentals, scope, objectives, prominent features and unique
identity. Before the emergence of Islam, following were the most important
intellectual spring heads which were existing in world; China, India,
Babylon, Egypt, Persia, and Greek. Islam encourages to its followers to gain
knowledge wherever they find. Muslim scholars enriched their thought by
all treasuries of knowledge without any hesitation. They studied all ideas
and thoughts directly by learning related languages and indirectly through
translations. They transferred all previous knowledge in Arabic language in
different steps. Here an important point to note is that every Muslim scholar
only accepted that idea which was according to the basic spirit of the Quran
and Islam. So, Muslim thinkers preserved all previous thoughts and ideas,
contributed in the advancement of knowledge by their own creative ideas
and played a vital role in the development of culture and civilization of the
human kind. In this respect, this article is a brief introduction of Muslim
Thought.
Dr Ali Raza Tahir. (2017) AN INTRODUCTION TO MUSLIM THOUGHT, Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 37, Issue 1.
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