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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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 …
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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Averroes' books were burnt actually, though again that may have been more a matter of court intrigue. Kindi was whipped after the Banu Musa turned the caliph against him; but again this doesn't seem to have been censorship of philosophical ideas.
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Ibn al-Haytham supposedly pretented to be mad to avoid being punished by the Caliph in Egypt, when he realised he couldn't dam the Nile. More of an engineering example than a philosophical one of course...
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