Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

The Poison of Philosophy 279 knowledge has led him to declare their writings to be bare of any guidance or restoration of the so ...

280 Anke von Kügelgen up a few of the subjects he touched therein^113 – and this is true of the present study, as well. 8. The R ...

The Poison of Philosophy 281 al-Mawṣilī (d. 774/1372–1373) included some of them in his Mukhtaṣar al-ṣawāʾiq al-mursala.^116 Bey ...

282 Anke von Kügelgen The prominent Shāfiʿī jurist and preacher Taj al-Dīn Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Subkī (d. 771/1370), for i ...

The Poison of Philosophy 283 Çelebi, d.  1067/1657), qualifies as a book that one ought to know.^122 Darʾ al-taʿāruḍ, in contras ...

284 Anke von Kügelgen Moroccan scholar Muḥammad Yatīm (b. 1956) praises him as “one of the most eminent philosophers of our hist ...

The Poison of Philosophy 285 “later” kalām theologians,^133 but also those of Shiites,^134 theosophists,^135 mystics,^136 and ot ...

286 Anke von Kügelgen 9.2. The Attitude Towards the Prophets’ Veracity as a Criterion of Distinction In al-Radd ʿalā al-manṭiqiy ...

The Poison of Philosophy 287 things about which the prophets received revelation – such as God, the Day of Judgment, the afterli ...

288 Anke von Kügelgen pret the words of the prophets in accordance with their own opinions. Thus, under the pretense of explaini ...

The Poison of Philosophy 289 them as disbelievers, sometimes on the same level as the Christians and Jews – since they believe i ...

290 Anke von Kügelgen despite their belief that the prophets have come up with the truth, are also accused of heresy (ilḥād),^15 ...

The Poison of Philosophy 291 10. Glimpses into Ibn Taymiyya’s Critique of Logic in Connection with His Epistemology 10.1. The Pa ...

292 Anke von Kügelgen Ibn Taymiyya repeatedly states in his direct critique that universals exist solely intramentally (post res ...

The Poison of Philosophy 293 studies might develop more appropriate designations and markers of distinction. Ibn Taymiyya’s reje ...

294 Anke von Kügelgen What he rebuts is thus the “real definition” (ḥadd ḥaqīqī) of the logi- cians by which they claim to grasp ...

The Poison of Philosophy 295 “a wrong way in itself and distraction” (ʿayn al-ḍalāl wal-iḍlāl),^181 a waste of time that distrac ...

296 Anke von Kügelgen example that Ibn Sīnā, for instance, uses to discredit induction as a way of inference that can lead to ce ...

The Poison of Philosophy 297 in order to utilize it in the knowledge of that which is higher than mathematics”.^194 Nevertheless ...

298 Anke von Kügelgen not a result of serious doubts about man’s rational capacity. On the contrary, Ibn Taymiyya is convinced t ...