PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE -2025
SUBJECT: PHILOSOPHY (PAPER-II)
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE:
i. All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
ii. Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q. Paper.
iii. No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
iv. Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.
Attempt FIVE Questions in All. Attempt in Urdu or English.
Q.No.1: What role did Bait-ul-Hikma, established by Al-Mamun, play in the development of Muslim philosophical and theological thought? Discuss.
Q.No.2: Trace out the impacts of Hellenic thought on the development of Muslim philosophical thought.
Q.No.3: What is the etymology of the term ‘Sufi’? Explain how Sufism emerged and was influenced by the different non-Islamic mystic theories in Islam.
Q.No.4: Ibn Sina’s Psychology provides a carefully systematized account of the various kinds of minds and their faculties. Explain.
Q.No.5: How Mutazilites interpret anthropomorphic verses of the Quran? Elaborate.
Q.No.6: For benefitting more from the Islamization of knowledge, what priorities should be set out first?
Q.No.7: “Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next”. In view of this quote, how do you comment on the trend of Religious Modernism?
Q.No.8: Expound salient features of Ibn Khaldun’s concept of history.
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