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: There are different intellectual traditions and schools of thought existing in the world. Due to their basis, ages, fundamental principles, nature, objectives, and scope, each has its own identity and prominent features. For example, Early Greek Philosophy is an attempt to rise from sensuous to pure thought, Medieval Western Philosophy is scholastic by its nature, while Modern Western Thought is a struggle to harmonize rational with empirical to some extent. Apart from all other intellectual movements and philosophical traditions of the world, Muslim Thought has its specific definition, fundamentals, scope, objectives, prominent features and unique identity. Before the emergence of Islam, following were the most important intellectual spring heads which were existing in world; China, India, Babylon, Egypt, Persia, and Greek. Islam encourages to its followers to gain knowledge wherever they find. Muslim scholars enriched their thought by all treasuries of knowledge without any hesitation. They studied all ideas and thoughts directly by learning related languages and indirectly through translations. They transferred all previous knowledge in Arabic language in different steps. Here an important point to note is that every Muslim scholar only accepted that idea which was according to the basic spirit of the Quran and Islam. So, Muslim thinkers preserved all previous thoughts and ideas, contributed in the advancement of knowledge by their own creative ideas and played a vital role in the development of culture and civilization of the human kind. In this respect, this article is a brief introduction of Muslim Thought.

Dr Ali Raza Tahir. (2017) AN INTRODUCTION TO MUSLIM THOUGHT, Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 37, Issue 1.
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