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In the Islamic world of learning, the concept of philosophy cannot be precisely defined. On the one hand, following the pattern of the ancient Greeks, it embraces mathematics (riyāḍiyyāt), natural sciences (ṭabī‘iyyāt) and even music (mūsiqi), besides logic, psychology and metaphysics; on the other hand the metaphysical branch passes unnoticeably into theology, because the Islamic kalām played the same sort of rôle as scholasticism in the Christian Middle Ages. According to their character the philosophical subjects are divided into two groups: the theoretical (nažari), already mentioned, and the practical (‘amali), i.e. ethics and politics.1
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Ed. by M. Taqi Mudarris Ridavi (Tehran 1326). - M. Taqi Dänish-Pazhöh, ‘Payvastagi-i mantiqu riyädi nazd-i Khväja Tüsi’, Yädnäma-i Khväja Nasir, 1 (Tehran 1336 ), 166–75.
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Rypka, J. (1968). Philosophy. In: Jahn, K. (eds) History of Iranian Literature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3479-1_23
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