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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms Baa bariqah A flash of illumination or inspiration from God in the soul of man, which does not tarry long. Bari Irminiyas De Interpretatione (The Interpretation), the title of the second of Aristotle’s book on logic, also named al-‘Ibarah or al-Tafsir; it deals with the formation of different kinds of propositions through the combination of simple ideas or terms.

Balinus Apollonius: many other Arabic variants of this name to be met with in Muslim works on the history of philosophers and scientists are: Abulluniyus, Abuluniyus, Ablinas and Ablus. Two persons named Apollonius were known to the Muslim thinkers: Apollonius of Perge (c. 200 B.C.), which name appears almost invariably with epithet al-Najjar, i.e.

"the Carpenter"; a Greek mathematician of third century B.C., whose Conics (al-Makhrutat) and other works were translated into Arabic and commented upon. A sage whose personality is based on the Greek tradition about Apollonius of Tyana, a neo-Pythagorean philosopher of 1st century C.E. He is known as a hakim, i.e. a philosopher but often also called sahib al-talismat, i.e. a magician and miracle-worker. Babus Pappus: Greek geometer of late 3rd and early 4th century C.E.

His chief work: "Mathematical Collection", was known to the Muslim philosophers and scientists; now extant only in incomplete form. badihat Self-evident data or premisses, i.e. propositions the truth of which is open to direct inspection and requires no appeal to other evidence, like the statement that a part is les than the whole of which it is the part or that two contradictories (naqidan, q.v.) cannot obtain in the same individual at the same time.

badihi That to which we give our assent without any question or investigation; opposed to nazari. barzakh Lit. "the intervening space", but technically the term denotes the "world of Ideas" which is considered intermediary between the material or phenomenal world and the world of pure spirits (mufariqat, q.v.) as well as of God. In the philosophy of Illuminationism (al-hikmat al-ishraqiyah, q.v.) barzakh means simply boy as opposed to light (nur.).

Barzakhs, thus are dark bodies which become illuminated through the light received from the spirit. The heavenly spheres being bodily are also barzakhs, but they are living barzakhs as compared to the physical bodies of this world which are dead barzakhs.