Abu Sulayman Sijistani
Abu Sulayman Muhammad Sijistani,(Persian: ابوسلیمان سجستانی) also called al-Mantiqi (the Logician), (c. 932 - c. 1000 CE), named for his origins in Sijistan or Sistan province in present-day Iran, became the leading philosopher of Islamic humanism in the Baghdad of his time.
Deeply religious, he regarded both religion and philosophy as valid and true; but separate, concerned with different issues, and proceeding by different means. He thus rejected the claims of the mutakallimiin theologians to have built a theology "proved" by rationality, and of the Brethren of Purity to offer a synthesis of philosophy and religion.
His best known work is Siwan al-hikma (Vessel of wisdom), a history of philosophy from the beginning to his own time.
References
Further reading
- Kraemer, Joel L. (1986), Philosophy in the Renaissance of Islam: Abū Sulaymān Al-Sijistānī and His Circle, Brill Publishers, ISBN 9004072586
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