hikma (ḥikma)

(Language: Arabic)

Short Description: Literally, “wisdom”

Long Description: Literally, “wisdom.” In the Islamic intellectual tradition it came to denote that form of theosophy which was a synthesis of philosophy, mysticism (or Sufism), and the religious sciences.

Sources: Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition, edited by Dr. Joseph Lumbard