FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION --- Dimitri Gutas

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE THE KNOWLEDGE BEFORE KNOWLEDGE

1. The Root '-l-m

2. The Evidence of Poetry

CHAPTER TWO THE REVELATION OF KNOWLEDGE

1. A Word Count and its Meaning

2. The Motivating Force behind the Qurânic Use of '-l-m

3. Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge

4. Jâhilîyah

5. Wisdom and Knowledge

CHAPTER THREE THE PLURAL OF KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER FOUR DEFINITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER FIVE KNOWLEDGE IS ISLAM (Theology and Religious Science)

1. Books and Chapters “On Knowledge”

1. The Knowledge and Faith

3. God’s Knowledge

4. Man’s Knowledge of God

5. Shî 'ah Notions of Knowledge

CHAPTER SIX KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT (Sûfism)

CHAPTER SEVEN KNOWLEDGE IS THOUGHT (Philosophy)

1. Graeco-Arabic Translation Terminology

2. Logic, “The Science of Knowledge”

3. Epistemology as a Tool of Theology and Jurisprudence

CHAPTER EIGHT KNOWLEDGE IS SOCIETY (Education)

1. 'Ilm-'Amal-Adab: Knowledge, Action, General Education

2. 'Ilm in Adab Anthologies

3. Monographs in Praise of Knowledge and the Educational Literature

4. Materials for an Appraisal of Knowledge as a Societal Force

The Attitude Toward Doubt

Limitations on Individual Knowledge

Personal Failings of Scholars

Knowledge as Life and as Food for the Soul

Knowledge in its Relation to Money and Power

CONCLUDING REMARK

INDEX