Comparative study of Islamic and non-Islamic thinkers
hossein mehrabanifar; Mohammad Reza Ghaeminik
Abstract
As one of the main foci of the development of the modern western world, the city has attracted the attention of western thinkers such as Max Weber, Karl Marx and Georg Simmel. On the other hand, in the Islamic-Iranian tradition, there has been an understanding of the city under Madinah which has caused ...
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As one of the main foci of the development of the modern western world, the city has attracted the attention of western thinkers such as Max Weber, Karl Marx and Georg Simmel. On the other hand, in the Islamic-Iranian tradition, there has been an understanding of the city under Madinah which has caused the theological reflections on the city to become a wide field when Muslims face the Western world. The purpose of this article is to use the comparative-historical study method to show the pattern of Muslim scholars such as Abu Nasr al-Farabi in the confrontation with the Greek Polis and use it in today's confrontation with modern city ideas. For this purpose, we have firstly examined Farabi's critical encounter with the Greek Polis and secondly compared Farabi's idea with Georg Simmel's view. With a critical description, Georg Simmel describes the characteristics of modern city culture and life and explains its components such as the centrality of monetary economy, increasing individuality and alienation, and the like. In the conclusion, according to the insights of this comparative study, other researchable topics in this field have been pointed out regarding the situation of Islamic-Iranian cities in the face of modern cities.
