Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

The Poison of Philosophy 319 people with good mental conditions^281 – he again forces an open door. One of his main opponents in ...

320 Anke von Kügelgen as the connection between the sun and the shapes of the moon.^286 Ibn Taymiyya, in fact, not did reduce fi ...

The Poison of Philosophy 321 things have no essences that make them belong to a species or genus (see chapters 10.1, 11.2), he a ...

322 Anke von Kügelgen seems to be a contradiction, there are three possibilities on the side of the wording (naṣṣ): either the i ...

The Poison of Philosophy 323 the sole methods to prove God’s existence. Ibn Taymiyya blames them for not taking into account inf ...

324 Anke von Kügelgen cannot be subsumed under a universal whose instances are equal; the unblemished perfection affirmed of oth ...

The Poison of Philosophy 325 tradition and uncontaminated reason,”^312 he does not limit reason to the teachings of the Koran an ...

326 Anke von Kügelgen of true understanding. Instead, he posits a faculty of true reasoning shared by all healthy human beings, ...

The Poison of Philosophy 327 that some people are able to form concepts and judgments by imme- diate insight, i. e., without cog ...

328 Anke von Kügelgen the universals in rebus, and that they can, therefore, be placed on an equal footing. Thus, it would have ...

The Curse of Philosophy Ibn Taymiyya as a Philosopher in Contemporary Islamic Thought Georges Tamer Arabic philosophy, or falsaf ...

330 Georges Tamer ground of rationality. Rationality becomes, thus, the criterion for the soundness of the scripture.^3 A counte ...

The Curse of Philosophy 331 ous perspectives. Later, Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) delivered a fero- cious attack against the Greek ...

332 Georges Tamer rocal process which they, perhaps, had not consciously perceived, the enemies of falsafa had become philosophe ...

The Curse of Philosophy 333 tering portrait in the works of contemporary Muslim authors. These authors depict him as a unique Mu ...

334 Georges Tamer 1. Ibn Taymiyya’s Philosophical Critique of Aristotelian Logic Central to Ibn Taymiyya’s ferocious defense of ...

The Curse of Philosophy 335 How do contemporary Muslim authors locate Ibn Taymiyya’s cri- tique of Aristotle’s logic? Three exam ...

336 Georges Tamer To begin, it is certainly worth noting that al-Nashshār, the first author, in a tone which can be considered r ...

The Curse of Philosophy 337 to its summit in a unique attempt to establish a uniquely Islamic log- ic.^35 In the view of the Mus ...

338 Georges Tamer Ṭabaṭabāʾī develops his own reaction. Rejecting Ibn Taymiyya’s plea for the unity of the quiddity and the exis ...