Western Islamic philosophy

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Western Islamic philosophy is the tradition of philosophical thought that developed in the Islamic West—primarily al-Andalus and the Maghreb—blending Aristotelian and Neoplatonic ideas with Islamic theology and influencing later Jewish and Christian philosophy.

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Andalusian philosophy 1
Western Islamic philosophy canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic philosophy
philosophical tradition
buildsOn Aristotle
Ibn Sina
linked to: Avicenna

Plotinus (via the Theology of Aristotle)
linked to: Plotinus

al-Farabi
linked to: Al-Farabi
centralTheme divine knowledge
eternity of the world
ethics
logic
metaphysics
nature of the soul
political philosophy
prophecy
relationship between reason and revelation
developedInPeriod 11th century
12th century
13th century
medieval period
geographicalFocus Iberian Peninsula
North Africa
hasInfluenceFrom Aristotelian philosophy
Islamic theology
linked to: IslamicTheology

Neoplatonism
hasMajorFigure Ibn Bajja
linked to: Ibn Bajjah

Ibn Gabirol
linked to: Solomon ibn Gabirol

Ibn Hazm
Ibn Masarra
Ibn Rushd
linked to: Averroes

Ibn Sabʿin
linked to: Ibn Sabʿīn

Ibn Tufayl
Ibn al-Arabi
linked to: Ibn Arabi

Maimonides
al-Ghazali
linked to: al‑Ghazali
hasSubtradition Andalusian Aristotelianism
Andalusian Neoplatonism
Maghrebi Sufism
historicalContext Almohad period
linked to: Almohad dynasty

Islamic rule in al-Andalus
influenced Christian philosophy
Jewish philosophy
Latin Averroism
linked to: Latin Averroists

Latin scholasticism
Renaissance philosophy
Thomas Aquinas
linked to: St. Thomas Aquinas
locatedIn al-Andalus
linked to: Al-Andalus

the Maghreb
linked to: North Africa
partOf Islamic intellectual history
linked to: Islamic studies
usesLanguage Arabic
Hebrew
Latin (in translation)

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Ibn Tufayl movement Western Islamic philosophy
Risāla fī l-wuḥda philosophicalTradition Andalusian philosophy
linked to: Western Islamic philosophy