Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

The Curse of Philosophy 339 Ṭabaṭabāʾī’s presentation of this topic: compared with Francis Bacon (1561–1626)^52 , Ibn Taymiyya a ...

340 Georges Tamer translated into Arabic.^58 At best, isolated skeptical thoughts could have indirectly reached the Abbasid soci ...

The Curse of Philosophy 341 a psychological process;^64 Mill ascribes to natural sciences the ability to explain everything that ...

342 Georges Tamer Taymiyya, as discussed above, has become – not incidentally – perhaps the most influential author in Muslim co ...

The Curse of Philosophy 343 their shared conviction that reason and revelation stood in fundamen- tal agreement. Ibn Taymiyya’s ...

344 Georges Tamer Like Ibn Rushd, Ibn Taymiyya was aware of the need to criticize the syllogism of the kalām-theologians and fu ...

The Curse of Philosophy 345 God’s care for the world and, thus, His continuous creating activity.^80 Wielding the same verses ag ...

346 Georges Tamer ing natural causality is a requirement of both reason and the Koranic belief in God’s wisdom as well. To deny ...

The Curse of Philosophy 347 and Ibn Taymiyya view the history of ideas as a history of decline. Al-Ṣaghīr suggests that the latt ...

348 Georges Tamer sion of the oneness of truth seriously.^94 As the study makes clear, some of his positions can be considered “ ...

The Curse of Philosophy 349 topics within a religious system utilizing, therewith, the same argu- ments and Koranic statements u ...

350 Georges Tamer and accepts literally-stated religious views exclusively; on the other hand, “in rare rational boldness [...] ...

The Curse of Philosophy 351 “philosophical reason” was open to the philosophers – even to those whom he considered enemies.^110 ...

352 Georges Tamer 3.1. God’s Oneness, His Attributes and the Multiplicity of Created Beings It was hard for kalām-theologians to ...

The Curse of Philosophy 353 According to Ajhar, Ibn Taymiyya dealt with the complicated rela- tionship between God’s attributes ...

354 Georges Tamer but is also objective; although not composite, it is the source of an eter- nal agency that does not begin or ...

The Curse of Philosophy 355 philosophical critique” of the theologians who, in their conceptions of divine knowledge, neglected ...

356 Georges Tamer Ibn Taymiyya, of course, did not wish to diminish God’s abso- lute power and freedom. He sought, therefore, a ...

The Curse of Philosophy 357 its own single elements.” Thus, the divine will functions as a mediator between the attributes and t ...

358 Georges Tamer divine actions, is the same role Muslim philosophers ascribed to the heavenly spheres.^138 Ibn Taymiyya’s phil ...