ISLA 200 Lecture 22: Isla200 Nov 23 GUEST LECTURE

• School: McGill University
• Department: Islamic Studies
• Course: ISLA 200
• Professor: Prashant Keshavmurthy

Document Summary

Western study of philosophy, history of philosophy, early islamic philosophers, problems created as a result of ancient greek philosophical texts being translated into arabic and competing with texts of islamic law and ways of knowing. Study of islamic history began a long time ago in toledo in spain, there was a large arabic translation movement. Engaging with arabic islamic philosophers in terms of their content, arguments, theories and so on. As the centuries progressed, medieval scholastic philosophy becomes discredited as a way of knowing replaced by scienti c or experimental ways of knowing. Arabic philosophy was seen as part of european scholastic philosophy, it gets lumped together in the same domain. Arabic philosophy gets approached not so much as philosophy but as text. Arabic philosophical texts become part of the corpus of arabic texts. Historic linguistics started as a search of the original language and a debate emerged, was the original language hebrew or sanskrit.