Prophetic Niche in the Virtuous City
The Concept of Hikmah in Early Islamic Thought
Biographical note
Hikmet Yaman, Ph.D. (2008) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor at Divinity School, Ankara University, Turkey. He has published on philosophical and mystical epistemologies in Islamic thought.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, Islamic thought, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Qur'anic studies, Arabic lexicography, the history of Islamic technical concepts, western scholarship on classical Islamic literature, as well as classical philologists, theologians, and orientalists.
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