Sentence examples for arab philosopher from inspiring English sources

Ibn Khaldūn, the great 14th-century Arab philosopher of history, describes al-Masʿūdī as an imam ("leader," or "example") for historians.

The 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldūn had pioneered a vast sociological view of the historical process, but in western Europe it was a neglected Neapolitan philosopher, Giambattista Vico, who first interpreted the past in terms of the changing consciousness of humankind.

In the magazine in 2002, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the sociologist Randall Collins, who, in tracing the global history of philosophy, found only three thinkers whose ideas could reasonably be said to have developed alone: the first-century Taoist metaphysician Wang Ch'ung and, in the fourteenth century, the Zen mystic Bassui Tokusho and the Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun.

A clear and strong influence of the Arab philosopher al-Kindi (d. 873) is evident in the work of Isaac Israeli.

By the 13th century numerous versions of the theory had emerged, but Thomas Aquinas seems to have largely adopted that of the Arab philosopher Avicenna (although not without some modifications).

And in al-Qadam, its streets named after ancient Arab philosophers and travellers, they are also returning.

For eight centuries knowledge of Aristotle was lost to Europe but preserved by Arab philosophers such as al-Fārābī (c. 878 c. 950) and Averroës (1126 1198).

"Averroes" and "Avicenna" are named for Arab philosophers (of the 11th and 12th centuries); "Marquis de Portago" commemorates a charismatic Spanish racecar driver who died in a fiery crash in 1957.

808 al-Ḥīrah, Iraq 873 Baghdad, Iraq Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, in full Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-Ibādī, Latin name Johannitius (born 808, al-Ḥīrah, near Baghdad, Iraq died 873, Baghdad) Arab scholar whose translations of Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, and the Neoplatonists made accessible to Arab philosophers and scientists the significant sources of Greek thought and culture.

Yet he was not averse to using some of the outstanding Arab philosophers in developing his own ideas in philosophy.

The assumption of the oneness of truth, common among Arab philosophers, allows the metaphysical part of philosophy to provide a rational and coherent account of the same divine realm disclosed by revelation, thereby putting it in competition with Islamic theology.