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These thinkers are the philosopher-his torian Miskawayh, the Sunni Mu‘tazili al-Ḥākim al-Jishumī, the Zahiri Ibn Ḥazm, and the Hadith scholar al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī.
Therefore, this article will show how the writings of four great thinkers of the fifth/eleventh century—Miskawayh, al-Ḥākim al-Jishumī, Ibn Ḥazm, and al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī—can help contemporary Muslims negotiate some of the intellectual and spiritual challenges we face today.
21 In these traditionalist Sunni sources, this hadith has a strong, unmistakably 60 Lucas: The Value of Classical Islamic Thought for Muslims Today predeterminist message, as can be seen from al-Tirmidhī’s version, which includes the statement: Know that if the Community were to gather together to benefit you with anything, it would benefit you only with something that God had already prescribed for you, and that if they gather together to harm you with any thing, they would harm you with something God had already prescribed for you.
70r) 64 Lucas: The Value of Classical Islamic Thought for Muslims Today He further includes a prophetic hadith, “The peak of wisdom is fear of Your Lord.
43 66 Lucas: The Value of Classical Islamic Thought for Muslims Today In short, al-Jishumī provides his readers with rich Qur’anic exegesis, so phisticated rational arguments, and a profound spirituality in his massive corpus of writings, the vast majority of which today remains confined to old manuscripts located in Yemen and Europe.
It is less reassuring for those Muslims who find Miskawayh and his monotheist Greek philosophers inspiring, as Ibn Ḥazm allows no space for non-Islamic metaphysics, and there is little evidence of his approval of a mystical relationship between believers and God that we find in Miskawayh’s The Refinement of Character.