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( Islamic philosophy)
Ahl al-Bayt&_160;· Sahaba
Sunni&_160;· Shi'a &_160;· Ahmadiyya
The attempt to fuse religion and philosophy is difficult[says who?] because there are no clear preconditions. Philosophers[who?] typically hold that one must accept the possibility of truth from any source and follow the argument wherever it leads. On the other hand, classical religious believers[who?] have a set of religious principles that they hold to be unchallengeable fact[citation needed]. Given these divergent goals and views, some hold that one cannot simultaneously be a philosopher and a true adherent of Islam, which is believed to be a revealed religion by its adherents. In this view, all attempts at synthesis ultimately fail. However, others believe that a synthesis between Islam and philosophy is possible. One way to find a synthesis is to use philosophical arguments to prove that one's preset religious principles are true. This is a common technique found in the writings of many religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Another way to find a synthesis is to abstain from holding as true any religious principles of one's faith at all, unless one independently comes to those conclusions from a philosophical analysis. However, this is not generally accepted as being faithful to one's religion by adherents of that religion. A third, rarer and more difficult path is to apply analytical philosophy to one's own religion. In this case a religious person would also be a philosopher, by asking questions such as Islamic philosophy refers to philosophy produced in an Islamic society. It is not necessarily concerned with religious issues, nor exclusively produced by Muslims. [Oliver Leaman, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
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