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[10e] Western intellectuals like Steven Weinberg and Neil deGrasse Tyson have repeated the myth that philosophy was superseded by “Islamic orthodoxy” due to this thinker’s treatise The Incoherence of the Philosophers.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. In this philosopher’s cyclical theory of history, desert tribes motivated by asabiyya conquer cities and are eventually overthrown by other 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 Indiscernible Broke Girls | Knox et al | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Fable of the Miis | Goldman & Jackson | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Chard Problem of Consciousness | Yesodei HaTorah 2:7 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Three Cantabrigians | Water Buffalo | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror | 05/31/25 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror | 07/13/25 | N | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror | 08/10/25 | N | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |