Editing Islamic philosophy (section)

===''Falsafa''===
''Falsafa'' is a [[Greek language|Greek]] [[loanword]] meaning "philosophy" (the Greek pronunciation ''philosophia'' became ''falsafa''). From the 9th century onward, due to [[Caliph]] [[al-Ma'mun]] and his successor, [[ancient Greek philosophy]] was introduced among the [[Arab]]s and the [[Peripatetic School]] began to find able representatives. Among them were [[Al-Kindi]], [[Al-Farabi]], [[Avicenna]] and [[Averroes]]. Another trend, represented by the Brethren of Purity, used Aristotelian language to expound a fundamentally [[Neoplatonism|Neoplatonic]] and [[Neopythagoreanism|Neopythagorean]] world view.

During the [[Abbasid caliphate]], a number of thinkers and scientists, some of them [[Heterodoxy|heterodox]] Muslims or non-Muslims, played a role in transmitting Greek, [[Hindu]] and other pre-Islamic knowledge to the [[Christians|Christian]] [[Western world|West]]. Three speculative thinkers, Al-Farabi, Avicenna and [[Al-Kindi]], combined [[Aristotelianism]] and [[Neoplatonism]] with other ideas introduced through Islam.

[[Ahmad Sirhindi]], 17th century Indian Islamic scholar, has viewed that the Greek philosophy about creations are incompatible with Islamic teaching by quoting several chapters of [[Quran]].<ref name="Maktubat Imam Rabbani; philosophy">{{cite book |author1=Ahmed Sirhindi Faruqi |title=Maktubat Imam Rabbani (Shaykh Ahmed Sirhindi) |url=http://www.maktabah.org/index.php/sufism/45-maktubat/62-maktubat-imam-rabbani.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810170341/http://www.maktabah.org/index.php/sufism/45-maktubat/62-maktubat-imam-rabbani.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-08-10 |access-date=22 November 2023 |language=En, Pa |chapter=7: The alams and everything were created from nothing. Greek philosophers. }}</ref> Furthermore, Sirhindi criticize the method of interpretating the meaning of Quran with philosophy.<ref name="Maktubat Imam Rabbani; philosophy 2">{{cite book |author1=Ahmed Sirhindi Faruqi |title=Maktubat Imam Rabbani (Shaykh Ahmed Sirhindi) |url=http://www.hizmetbooks.org/Endless_Bliss_Third_Fascicle/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810063722/http://www.hizmetbooks.org/Endless_Bliss_Third_Fascicle/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-08-10 |access-date=22 November 2023 |language=En, Pa |chapter=3: It is not permissible to confine the meanings in Qur'an al-karim within philosophers' views.}}</ref>