Actually this turns out to be startlingly rare. There is arguably not a single example of a philosopher being persecuted for their philosophical views in the classical Islamic period.https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/993589407385976833 …
What is the best example of an Islamic philosopher suffering greatly for, or possibly being persecuted for, their pursuit of philosophy / truth? For a comic about philosophers one-uping how much they sacrificed for truth.
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Thanks, this is sort of what I thought. Although I read stories where both Averroes and Al-Kindi might have at least been nervous about it. Going with Al-Kindi laboring to translate from Greek and not wanting to offend with foreign philosophy, was looking for a mild setup anyway.
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Speaking more broadly, it is easier to find cases of persecution against daring mystics (Hallaj for instance, as someone mentioned) and Shiite missionaries since Sunni leaders saw them as politically problematic.
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Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, 780-855, tortured by Caliph for refusing to change his view of Quran as eternal and uncreated
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Hanbal was a renowned scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
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Looking through other responses you've gotten, there are people who fell afoul of political intrigue (Kindi, his student Sarakshi, also Suhrawardi - put to death by Saladin!). But not for their philosophical views.
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Al-Kindi (supposedly) got beat up once and had his books taken away. Al-Jahiz (if he counts as a philosopher) was killed by his own books crushing him to death.
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And the story about the carpet someone mentioned: the Mongol ruler Hulagu had the last Abbasid caliph (not a philosopher) rolled in a carpet and trampled to death. Supposedly.
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