The introductory chapter of Usul, to which Wensinck has drawn attention and discussed in some length in The Muslim Creed, is thus of considerable importance for the understanding of the Islamic approach to the question of knowledge or science. We cannot dwell at length here on Baghdadi’s analysis of the divisions of knowledge (‘ilm), its [...]

As for the whole question of “newness” or “eternity” of the world, or huduth and gidam, which has occupied Islamic thinkers for the past twelve centuries and which is related to the question of the contingency of the world vis-k-vis the Divine Principle, it is inconceivable without the teachings of the Qur’an and Hadith. It [...]

The very term al-hagigah is of the greatest significance for the understanding of the relation between Islamic philosophy and the sources of the Islamic revelation. Al-baqiqah means both truth and reality. It is related to God Himself, one of whose names is al-Hagq or the Truth, and is that whose discovery is the goal of [...]

Sekarang kita akan melihat secara umum, bagaimanakah sebenarnya hubungan antara filsafat dengan mistisisme, yang dalam konteks filsafat Islam disebut dengan tasawuf. Tasawuf dipahami sebagai mistisisme Islam -kadang disebut juga Sufisme- (karena dinisbatkan kepada ahli tasawwuf yang disebut sufi). Tasawuf dimasukkan oleh Ibn Khaldun ke dalam kelompok ilmu-ilmu naqliyyah (agama). Sebagai salah satu ilmu naqliyyah, maka [...]