Classification of Knowledge in Islam : A Study in Islamic Philosophies of Sci…

The lives and the ideas of the three thinkers discussed inClassification of Knowledge in Islam – al-Farabi (870-950AD), al-Ghazzali (1AD) and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1AD) – cover the pivotal period of Islamic history from the first flourishing of the philosophical sciences to the sacking of Baghdad by the Mongols.