Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

The Curse of Philosophy 359 Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī provided Ibn Taymiyya with significant rational support.^143 As Ibn Taymi ...

360 Georges Tamer His agency are for him “a continuous force pushing the beings so that they do not stop and maintain their effi ...

The Curse of Philosophy 361 ined in depth, Ibn Taymiyya’s writings betray the strong influence of the philosophers. The hidden s ...

362 Georges Tamer theology (kalām) in its theoretical and practical dimensions as known in Arabic civilization. Thus, Ibn Taymiy ...

The Curse of Philosophy 363 existential level.^160 In the way they deal with philosophical problems, both thinkers appear to be ...

364 Georges Tamer a new situation in which language, pronounced and written, became decisive for determining cognitive concepts. ...

The Curse of Philosophy 365 his books – some of which bear a philosophical touch – as well as in fatwas and in isolated statemen ...

366 Georges Tamer tion (sunna) in a way that illuminated the scientific-theoretical and the practical-ethical dimensions of the ...

The Curse of Philosophy 367 (ḥaqīqa) and metaphor (majāz) in regards to the Koran. The goal of Ibn Taymiy ya’s critique is to ab ...

368 Georges Tamer the most accurate form of human knowledge, consists, thus, of nothing else but “cognitive values”; this render ...

The Curse of Philosophy 369 of human languages when describing objects the Koran considers as unseen. Only God knows objects suc ...

370 Georges Tamer tion of Koran and Sunna, whose aim was to correct the Platonic and Aristotelian schools. According to another ...

The Curse of Philosophy 371 that whatever contradicts the literal text of Koran and Hadith cannot be rational at all. In this, h ...

372 Georges Tamer religious understanding of rationality makes it difficult to label him as a philosopher. While the philosopher ...

The Curse of Philosophy 373 In making Ibn Taymiyya a philosopher, which consequences arise for the conception of philosophy? Ibn ...

374 Georges Tamer astoundingly, this mindset represents a pre-modern state of Islamic thought that somehow, anachronistically, m ...

Against Islamic Universalism ʿAlī al-Ḥarbī’s 1990 Attempt to Prove That Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Affirm the Etern ...

378 Jon Hoover Ibn al-Qayyim provides a similar treatment in Shifāʾ al-ʿalīl (Healing of the Sick) that is less beholden to the ...

Against Islamic Universalism 379 There is, however, a minority of specifically Muslim scholars who set forth several brief passa ...

380 Jon Hoover 1. ʿAlī al-Ḥarbī’s Predicament ʿAlī al-Ḥarbī is generous in detailing the circumstances that led him to try to de ...