Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

The Poison of Philosophy 259 Research on Ibn Taymiyya in the last decades has revealed strik- ing similarities between some of h ...

260 Anke von Kügelgen Ibn Taymiyya’s theories have been disclosed.^22 How far Ibn Taymiy- ya borrowed these or other tenets from ...

The Poison of Philosophy 261 had praised logic, on the contrary, as an excellent, infallible instrument of reason with no relati ...

262 Anke von Kügelgen less, like his schoolfellow, Ibn al-Jawzī accused “the philosophers” of unbelief because of their metaphys ...

The Poison of Philosophy 263 still, he is not reflecting on logic and its consistency and seems to have taken the “soundness” of ...

264 Anke von Kügelgen (d. 428/1037) is explicitly called a “devil of the human devils” and the study of his work is prohibited.^ ...

The Poison of Philosophy 265 4. Ibn Taymiyya’s Writings Against Logic In his refutations of logic, Ibn Taymiyya refers to previo ...

266 Anke von Kügelgen al-Ishārāt wal-tanbīhāt^50 and calls it the “muṣḥaf [Koran copy] of these heretical philosophers.”^51 He p ...

The Poison of Philosophy 267 in custody in Alexandria, but apparently completed it only after his major refutation of the ration ...

268 Anke von Kügelgen the culmination of a tradition of anti-logical discourse as an ingenious and creative selection of already ...

The Poison of Philosophy 269 Ibn Taymiyya wrote also minor refutations of logic. The main one that has come down to us is Naqḍ a ...

270 Anke von Kügelgen 5. The Impact of Ibn Taymiyya’s Refutation of Logic via al-Suyūṭī In the 15th century, the encyclopedist a ...

The Poison of Philosophy 271 tion, he mentions his annoyance at seeing many of those who deal with logic justifying themselves b ...

272 Anke von Kügelgen doubts regarding logic had vanished among influential scholars, so that the study of logic became obligato ...

The Poison of Philosophy 273 Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350), al-Suyūṭī, and others to justifica- tions of logic from Taqī al-D ...

274 Anke von Kügelgen entered the scene, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī had already refuted major subjects of the falāsifa in several of h ...

The Poison of Philosophy 275 be only mediocre thinkers,^92 thoroughly criticized – with purely ratio- nalistic arguments – many ...

276 Anke von Kügelgen Besides these highly rationalistic rejections and discussions of falsafa,^98 there were also long and hars ...

The Poison of Philosophy 277 (al-naql/al-sharʿ), holding that they thereby missed the right path to truth.^102 His vigorous and ...

278 Anke von Kügelgen from the early 17th or late 19th century^106 and two from the turn of the 19 th to the 20th century.^107 T ...