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Story of Islamic Philosophy, The

Ibn Tufayl, Ibn al-'Arabi, and Others on the Limit between Naturalism and Traditionalism

Offers a new interpretation of medieval Islamic philosophy, one informed by Platonic mysticism.

Introduction The story of Islamic philosophy is the story of the development of the
human intellect from the rationalistic phase, represented in this study by Farabi (d
.950)', to an illuminative phase represented by Ibn Tufayl (d.ll85) and Ibn al-'Arabi
(d. 1240)? Illuminative philosophy is based on a model of mystical illumination
that found its best expression in Plato's Seventh Letter and that is illustrated in
Mishkdt al-Anwdr (Niche of Lights) by Ghazali (d. 1111) and al-lshdrdt wa-
alTanbihdt ...