Question
Description required. Hamza Yusuf, the editor-in-chief of a journal that aims to reverse this process, wrote an article about it that Abdurrahman Mihrig criticized as ahistorical. For 10 points each:
[10h] The notion of what historical process is refuted in a 2021 Frank Griffel book that discusses practitioners of ḥikma like Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi? This supposed process is often traced to a twenty-part book’s accusation of taqlid.
ANSWER: the decline of Islamic philosophy [accept Arabic or Muslim for “Islamic”; accept metaphysics, falasafa, science, scholarship, or learning for “philosophy”; accept descriptions of the idea that Islamic philosophy is extinct or that it died out in the late Middle Ages; prompt on the end of the Islamic Golden Age]
[10e] Western intellectuals often repeat the myth that Islamic philosophy died out due to this thinker’s treatise The Incoherence of the Philosophers.
ANSWER: al-Ghazali [or Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī; accept Algazel or Algazelus]
[10m] Yusuf cited this prominent post-Ghazali thinker’s complaint that tradition had “ossified” in the 14th century. This philosopher developed a cyclical theory of history driven by the asabiyya of desert tribes.
ANSWER: Ibn Khaldun [or Abū Zayd 'Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī]
<JC/FW, Philosophy (Ancient/Medieval)>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawk Tuahology | The Book of Coming Forth by Gay | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Hawk the Herald Angels Tuah | Trielectic Materialists | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Quining Quem Quaeritis | The Waterloo Queens | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror | 05/31/25 | N | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror | 07/13/25 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror | 08/10/25 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |