Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

The Poison of Philosophy 299 For Ibn Taymiyya, fiṭra has different connotations and is never described as such in his two refuta ...

300 Anke von Kügelgen be described, then, as the predisposition and the faculty to correctly and immediately grasp true knowledg ...

The Poison of Philosophy 301 ligence and the senses. He regards them as belonging to “the relative, relational matters” (min al- ...

302 Anke von Kügelgen estimative propositions (wahmiyyāt) and widespread propositions (mashhūrāt) among the premises that can le ...

The Poison of Philosophy 303 He does not disqualify sense perceptions, especially those perceived by the spirit (rūḥ), that are ...

304 Anke von Kügelgen ently, only disagrees with their denomination. Ibn Sīnā explains a true estimation as a knowledge that is ...

The Poison of Philosophy 305 In contrast, the falāsifa and some “later” kalām theologians more or less doubt the certainty of th ...

306 Anke von Kügelgen 11.2. Empirical Matters and Natural Efficient Causation: Ibn Taymiyya as a “Moderate Realist” Ibn Taymiyya ...

The Poison of Philosophy 307 the Muʿtazilīs and others, affirm the causes (al-asbāb) and say: ‘As the connection (iqtirān) [betw ...

308 Anke von Kügelgen denial of the Aristotelian “real definition” (ḥadd ḥaqīqī) that is held to grasp the “essence” of a thing ...

The Poison of Philosophy 309 on the basis of the fact that fire possesses a power (quwwa) to burn, then the knowledge that every ...

310 Anke von Kügelgen because of its genus (murād jinsahu), namely the dispelling of hunger. Not everything, Ibn Taymiyya argues ...

The Poison of Philosophy 311 wise purposes.^245 If God does not will something to happen that would result from a cause or a com ...

312 Anke von Kügelgen the secondary causes as acting on their own,^249 Ibn Taymiyya views God, as Hoover has shown, as perpetual ...

The Poison of Philosophy 313 11.3. Induction, Categorical Syllogism and Analogy: The Rational Balance in the Koran Ibn Taymiyya ...

314 Anke von Kügelgen inference from one particular to another that, if it could be completed, would reveal their common factor, ...

The Poison of Philosophy 315 al-taʿlīl (causational inference), and its subdivisions, the co-extensive analogy (qiyās al-ṭard) u ...

316 Anke von Kügelgen wine from fruits other than grapes is forbidden.”^264 This is exactly the example al-Ghazālī had already u ...

The Poison of Philosophy 317 ate realist” and not a “nominalist.” The following quotations support these assumptions: One of the ...

318 Anke von Kügelgen the justice God has commanded. He who knows the universal without knowing the particular will have possess ...