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Ḥikma

Wisdom: philosophy as a way of wisdom, uniting reasoning with spiritual realization.

Also: Hikma, wisdom

Sufism and Islamic thought

Ḥikma, wisdom, became in later Islamic thought the name for a philosophy joining demonstration, mystical intuition and scripture, as in the transcendent wisdom of Mullā Ṣadrā in seventeenth-century Iran. The Qurʾān says that whoever is given wisdom is given much good.