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Philosophy vs Islam - What's the difference?

philosophy | islam |

As nouns the difference between philosophy and islam

is that philosophy is the love of wisdom while Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.

As a verb philosophy

is to philosophize.

philosophy

Alternative forms

* philosophie (obsolete) * phylosophie (obsolete) * phylosophy (nonstandard)

Noun

  • (uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
  • (uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy , he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • (countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
  • (countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
  • (countable) A general principle (usually moral).
  • (archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
  • Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * analytic philosophy * antiphilosophy * continental philosophy * personal philosophy * philosophize * philosophy of mind

    Verb

  • To philosophize.
  • *, II.12:
  • Plato hath (in my seeming) loved this manner of Philosophying , Dialogue wise in good earnest, that therby he might more decently place in sundry mouthes the diversity and variation of his owne conceits.

    See also

    * * ideology

    islam

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Islaam,

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia Islam)
  • A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an .
  • # (specifically) The Muslim way of life; the collective body or culture of Muslim believers and traditions
  • Synonyms

    * Mohammedanism *

    Hypernyms

    * religion, monotheism, Abrahamism

    Coordinate terms

    *

    See also

    * Allah * Hajj * Qur'an * mosque * sharia law * hadith

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