Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi

Explanation

Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi is invoked as an example of philosophical humanist thought and literature in the fourth century AH. He is also used to highlight the broad classical meaning of adab, in which adab brought together knowledge, conduct, and virtues, rather than aesthetic writing alone.

Referred to by

• Abu Hayyan as an Example of Philosophical Humanist Thought
• Ethics That Transcend State and Religion
• A New Universal Ethics
• Tools for Deconstructing Taboos
• Aristotle Remained Influential in Europe
• Arkoun Was a Researcher-Thinker, Not a Professional Philosopher
• The Crisis of Contemporary Islam
• The Crisis of Contemporary Islam Has Multiple Causes
• The Crisis of Faith and Reason
• The Modern Crisis of the Arab-Islamic World
• The Crisis of the Arab-Islamic World Resulted from a Double Rupture
• The Crisis of the West Is Ethical
• The West’s Ethical Crisis Requires a New Universal Ethics
• The Mediterranean Crisis and September 11
• Types of Contemporary Intellectuals
• The Eastern Origins of the Monotheistic Religions
• The Priority of Precise Historical Survey
• The Priority of Comparison among Religions
• Displacing European Modernity
• Reforming Education to Combat Extremism
• Adding Modern Knowledge to the Arab Field
• Restoring Ibn Rushd Alone Is Not Enough
• The Exclusion of Ibn Rushd in Islam
• Neglecting the Question of the Other
• Ibn Rushd Is Not the Time of Independence
• Ibn Rushd Succeeded in Europe and Failed Here
• Ibn Rushd as a Model of Critical Rationality
• Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldun as Two Rationalist Moments
• Ibn Rushd and the Censorship of 1277
• The Reduction of Teaching Islamic Thought
• The Flourishing of Literature and Philosophy and Then Their Decline
• The Flourishing of Arab Rationalism Was the Fruit of Historical Conditions and Epistemic Openness
• The Flourishing of Rationalism Is Linked to Multiple Factors
• The Flourishing of Philosophy in the Golden Age
• The Impossibility of Fully Reaching the Oral Origin
• Recovering the First Qur’anic Text Requires a Method That Acknowledges the Impossibility of Completion
• Using Critical Deconstruction to Link Tradition with Modernity
• The Reception of Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas
• Islam’s Spiritual and Political Independence
• The Independence of Reason in Modernity
• The Independence of Philosophy and Theology Today
• The Continuing Effect of Closure down to the Present
• The Continuing Centrality of Islamic Theology
• The Continuing Dilemma of Religion and Reason
• Hadiths and Noble Virtues Narrow Philosophy
• Modern Ethics Is Formulated within Science and Institutions
• Religious Ethics Requires Historical Interpretation
• Modern Universal Ethics
• Critical Ethics Differs from Preaching
• Ethics, Religion, and Politics Have an Interconnected History
• Ethics, Religion, and Politics Form a Single Historical Entanglement
• Ethics, Language, and the Critique of Metaphysics Redefine Religious Reason