Lucknow School

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The Lucknow School was founded in the early 18th century by Sunni scholars in the Indian city of Lucknow in what is now the state of Uttar Pradesh .

history

There was a teaching canon with treatises of the highest degree of difficulty. It included rational sciences such as logic and law. But philosophy and contemporary Indian- Muslim scholars were also taught. Traditional sciences were also taught. The Aristotelianism was emphasized, whereas the period of neo-Platonism from the curriculum painted and was taught only in private.

The Lucknow School was opposed to the Delhi School . Here Aristotelianism fell away completely.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malik, Jamal: Islam in South Asia. In: Noth, Albrecht ; Paul, Jürgen (Hrsg.): The Islamic Orient - Basics of its history. Würzburg: Ergon, 1998, pp. 505-543.