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Osman Bakar.

Classification of knowledge in Islam : a study in Islamic philosophies of science / Osman Bakar ; foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. - Cambridge, U.K. : Islamic Texts Society, c1998. - xvii, 312 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The life, works, and significance of al-Fārābī -- Al-Fārābī -- The methodological basis of the hierarchy of the sciences -- The ontological and the ethical bases of the hierarchy of the sciences -- Classification and description of linguistic science and logic -- Classification and description of the philosophical sciences -- The life, works, and significance of al-Ghazzālī -- Al-Ghazzālī's classification of seekers after knowledge -- Al-Ghazzālī's classification of the sciences -- The life, works, and significance of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī -- Quṭb al-Dīn's classification of the sciences -- The philosophical bases of the three classifications : similarities and differences.

ISBN: 0946621713 9780946621712

LCCN: 99487849

Subjects--Personal Names:
Fārābī.
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 1237-1310 or 1311.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Islamic philosophy.
Classification of sciences--History.
Science--Philosophy--History.

LC Class. No.: B741 / .C53 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 001/.01/2