Salaam!
I have three questions regarding this topic:
What is the defination of an Islamic Philosopher?
What are the contributions of Islamic Philosophers?
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Behna, you just opened a can of worms because there is no agreement on this topic. Very divergent views exist on it. Have you ever heard of Imam Al-Ghazali?
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^yes I have brother.......but i dont know much about him. I only know him through the scholars like Ibn Taymiyah.........havent read his own work.
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Read up on Ghazali, you will find philosophy! :D
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Philosophy concerns itself with things like ethics, metaphysics (which deals with the basic nature of things), the limits of knowledge, etc.
Islamic Philosophy, then, is the study of such things from an Islamic perspective, i.e. within accordance to Islamic theology.
Continuation of the line of thought of Greeks. Although it’s not obvious, math and science have their root in philosophy.
Islamic philosophers, such as Al-Ghazali , were heavily influential on European thinking.
Aside from that…do philospohers ever really ‘contribute’ anything except questions? 
There most likely were, although there were no people who practiced philosophy as a rigid discipline…
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Imam Ghazali was still quite traditional...
The other philosophers were... a bit... different?
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Behna, you just opened a can of worms because there is no agreement on this topic. Very divergent views exist on it. Have you ever heard of Imam Al-Ghazali?
^ thas all i can say ..:)
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Al-Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers:
and the refutation by Ibn Rushd, The Incoherence of the ‘Incoherence’:
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First of all, Philosphy is not limited to any topic. Philosophy is more like a method of exploring knowledge, investigating, asking questions, debating, and much much more.
Technically, everyone who drags their behind into this forum thinking they're an armchair maulvi is nothing more than a philosopher. Its just that your philosophical conclusions are different from the prototype philosophers that you learn about in PHI101
And there is a common misconception that Philosophers don't believe in God, or theology and therefore, there can be no such thing as Islamic philosophy. But that's not true. There are philosophical arguments that support the existence of an intelligent designer. Its no hard stretch to say that the arguments we make as muslims for God's existence, etc, is nothing more than another form of philosophy. Its just that we define our philosophy as a reality.
But that's what a lot of philosophers do, whether they admit it or not.
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Imam Ghazali was still quite traditional...
The other philosophers were... a bit... different?
What do you mean a bit different?
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Philosophy concerns itself with things like ethics, metaphysics (which deals with the basic nature of things), the limits of knowledge, etc.
Islamic Philosophy, then, is the study of such things from an Islamic perspective, i.e. within accordance to Islamic theology.
JazakAllah for the answer.
That means to study philosophy from an islamic perspective, first you have to be an islamic scholar.
So you've got the enough knowledge about islamic history, methodology etc to analyse things from an islamic perspective. Am I right?