23/05/2024 14:00 - 17:30

HALL: LA PIRA - ROOM 1

Proponent: Brocato G.

Chair: Brocato G.

Speaker: Amharar I., Brocato G., Kalyoncu R.T., Nur A.T., Panzeca I., Schimmenti R.

Opening his Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal argues that the concept of ?ilm enjoyed an "operational dimension" even broader than other prima facie more powerful terms such as taw?id or din, to the extent that no branch of Muslim intellectual, political, and religious life could escape from its influence. Following the spirit of Rosenthal's observation, this panel employs two different albeit parallel approaches to investigate the development of the notion of ?ilm throughout the history of Islamic thought. On one hand, three contributions analyze the reception of books, theories, and legacies in a specific time framework. Rosalia Schimmenti addresses the science of letters (?ilm al-?uruf), presenting the history of this discipline in the Classical period. Ahmed Nur analyzes the relative positionality of religious and philosophical knowledge in Tashkoprizade's Ottoman Arabic Encyclopedia of the Sciences. Ivana Panzeca deals with the transmission of Avicennian texts and their commentaries in the Safavid era. On the other hand, three other proposals pay more attention to specific texts, highlighting certain epistemological features or models. Riza Kalyoncu introduces al-Farabi's epistemology, cross-referencing different of his texts. Giuseppe Brocato presents the refutation that Abu Bakr brings forth in his al-?Awa?im regarding al-Gazali's epistemology. Ilyass Amharar discusses methods of jurisprudence (u?ul al-fiqh), referring to Abu Bakr's Nukat al-ma?sul fi ?ilm al-u?ul.