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Falsafa

Islamic philosophy in the Greek tradition, from al-Kindī and al-Fārābī to Avicenna and Averroes.

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Sufism and Islamic thought

Falsafa, from Greek philosophia, is the Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy developed in Arabic from the ninth century. Its great figures include al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd. Al-Ghazālī’s critique and Suhrawardī’s philosophy of illumination shaped its later course.