The Aims of the Philosophers
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| subject = Philosophy
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| pub_date = 12th century
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Maqasid al Falasifa ({{Langx|ar|مقاصد الفلاسفة}}), or The Aims of the Philosophers was written by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazali. Influenced by Avicenna's works, he wrote this book presenting the basic theories of philosophy.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B105DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA445|title=Encyclopedia of Global Religion|first1=Mark|last1=Juergensmeyer
|first2=Wade Clark|last2=Roof|date=31 January 2018|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9780761927297|via=Google Books}} In this book, he explained in detail about what philosophy is and described basic entities like judgement, concept, premise and logic. Al-Ghazali stated that one must be well versed in the ideas of the philosophers before setting out to refute their ideas. He also stated that he did not find other branches of philosophy including physics, logic, astronomy or mathematics problematic.{{cite thesis|author=Gershon Baruch Chertoff|title=The Logical Part of Al-Ghazali's Maqasid Al-Falasifa|id={{ProQuest|302007254}}|location=Columbia University|degree=Ph.D.
|year=1952|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/302007254}}{{cite book|last=Ghazali|first=Al|title=The Incoherence of the Philosophers
|year=2000|publisher=Brigham Young UP|isbn=0-8425-2466-5 |pages=5–10}} After writing Maqasid al Falasifa, he wrote another. book Tahāfut al-Falāsifa, criticizing the Avicennian school of early Islamic philosophy.{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/avicenna-i|title=Avicenna i. Introductory note – Encyclopaedia Iranica|last=electricpulp.com
|website=www.iranicaonline.org}}
Influence
This book was influential in Europe and was one of the first to be translated from Arabic to Latin (12th century).{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Ghazali#ref240531|title=al-Ghazali - Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic|date=6 March 2024 |publisher=}} A portion of the book is also translated into Hebrew and English.{{cite web
|url=http://www.maktabah.org/en/item/931-maqasid-al-falasifah-aims-of-the-philosophers|title=Maqasid al-falasifah (Aims of the Philosophers) {مقاصد الفلاسفة} by Imam Ghazali - Maktabah Mujaddidiyah|first=Imam|last=Ghazali|publisher=}} Muhammad Hanif Nadvi translated it into Urdu and is titled "Qadim Unani Falsafa" (Ancient Greek Philosophy).{{Cite book |last=M Awais Sultan |url=http://archive.org/details/qadeem-unaani-falsfa |title=QADEEM UNAANI FALSFA قدیم یونانی فلسفہ |date=2021-02-07}}
See also
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