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He must be capable of the kind of contemplation and communion that will yield a direct knowledge of Active Intelligence which can then be imparted by the prophet-ruler to the citizens. Al-Farabi’s theory of prophecy is a complex one that is integrated with and supported by the broader structure of his philosophy. He takes the tenets of the theory from Islamic theology and justifies them by reference to his philosophical account of the human mind and its place within his broad metaphysical scheme.
Translations of the Greek writings began to reach the West in the first part of the twelfth century; but it was not just an Aristotelian or generally Greek influence that made itself felt, for the writings and thought that were transmitted were presented in the context of the 12 ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY: INTRODUCTION Islamic philosophers’ intellectual struggle to reconcile reason and faith, a struggle that western theologians and philosophers, fired by the example of Muslims such as al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd, were to make their own in succeeding centuries.
The sunnah and hadith were closely interactive with Islamic jurisprudence. By the eighth century CE two main schools of Islamic theology had been established: a rationalist school, the Mutazila, whose adherents held that reason can discover truths which are confirmed by revelation and that God does not act unreasonably, and the Sunni, who opposed the rationalism of the Mutazila, claiming that God obeys no norms, that actions become good or bad by God’s declaration, and that rational reflection cannot discover God’s will.