Jābiriʼs Hermeneutics: an Epistemological Reading of Ibn Rushdʼs Text Cover Image

Džabirijeva hermeneutika: - Epistemološko čitanje Ibn Rušdova teksta
Jābiriʼs Hermeneutics: an Epistemological Reading of Ibn Rushdʼs Text

Author(s): Orhan Bajraktarević
Subject(s): Epistemology, Logic, Islam studies, Other Language Literature, Ancient Philosphy, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Middle-East Philosophy, 6th to 12th Centuries, Hermeneutics
Published by: Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu
Keywords: epistemology; theologians of law; theologians of kalām; bayān; ʽirfān; burhān;

Summary/Abstract: Epistemology is a theory of sciences, their methods and systematization. This is not a text about epistemology, its sources, meanings, texts and contexts, but about the scope and frontiers of this term in Jābiriʼs epistemological reading of Ibn Rushdʼs philosophy. This text also discusses its role as an essential aspect of Neo-Arabic tradition and culture in our time. In Jābiriʼs view there is a special linguistic system in Arabic-Islamic philosophy known as bayān. In the formative phase of Islam (ʽaṣr tadwīn) this linguistic system spread to all sciences and disciplines such as grammar, law, theology, language and style. In this context, Jābiri thinks that all the questions, areas, themes and subjects of Ibn Rushdʼs text may be reduced to forms and figures in the complex relationship between philosophy and religion: the purpose of the commentaries and summaries of Aristotleʼs works was to bring Aristotle and philosophy closer to the mentality and understanding of the Arabic-Muslim public opinion.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 139-150
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian