Svjetonazor islamske filozofije
The Worldview of Islamic philosophy

Summary/Abstract: At the very beginning, the author discusses philosophy’s relation to the Islamic tradition, presenting the important philosophical questions within it. After that, he discusses the quality and quantity, claiming that the Islamic intellectual tradition always insisted on the former, while the modern scientistic thinking insists on the latter, whereupon the basic qualities are discussed more widely in the next subchapter. Afterwards, within the ontological discussion, he presents the relation between existence and finding, which is embodied in the notion of wujūd. In the next part, he engages with psychology, more specifically with the soul and intellect, only to move later to cosmology, focusing on the Origin and the Return. Afterwards, the paper discusses the degrees of human potentiality in a hierarchical order, whereupon a human can soar to such heights to become a complete human being. In the last subchapter the anthropocosmic vision, which is completely contrary to the modern scientific worldview, is presented. Also, it is noteworthy that this paper does not neglect the overall importance of ethics. The paper discusses the Islamic philosophy in the reflection of Bābā Afdal’s teachings who, according to the author’s opinion expressed in other works, is the most significant Islamic philosopher and a person who in fact embodies the Islamic philosophical tradition. All in all, the chapter of Chittick’s book The Heart of Islamic Philosophy shrewdly offers an answer to the question: What is Islamic philosophy?

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