Avicennism

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Avicennism is a school of

Suhrawardi.[3]

Corbin referred to divergences between Iranian Avicennism and Latin Avicennism[4] and showed that one can see three different schools in Avicennism, which he called Avicennising Augustinism, Latin Avicennism and Iranian Avicennism.[5]

Several Mu’tazilites were contemporaries of Avicenna,

Ibn al-Malāḥimī (d. 1141), who argued that philosophy in the Greek tradition would be used to justify false beliefs and dilute the prophetic character of Islam. He put forward Christianity as an example of a prophetic religion corrupted by Greek abstract thought.[7]

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Nasr 2013, p. 67
  2. ^ Corbin 1998, p. 93
  3. ^ Nasr 2013, p. 67
  4. ^ Corbin 1998, p. 101
  5. ^ Corbin & Trask 2014, p. 102
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  7. ^ Wilferd Madelung (2011), "Ibn al-Malāḥimī", in David Thomas; Alex Mallett; Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala; Johannes Pahlitzsch; Mark Swanson; Herman Teule; John Tolan (eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 3 (1050–1200), Leiden: Brill, pp. 440–443.

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