God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya’s Refutation of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Ašʿarī Incorporealism

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Abstract Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) wrote his tome Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya to refute Ašʿarī kalām theologian Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s 606/1210) argument in Taʾsīs al-taqdīs that God is not corporeal, located, or spatially extended. the largest known refutation of incorporealism Islamic tradition, and was apparently most sophisticated work its kind circulating Taymiyya’s Mamlūk scholarly milieu. deconstructs rational arguments explicates an alternative theology God’s relation space. Translating understanding meaning Qurʾān Sunna into terminology drawing on Rušd’s 595/1198) Aristotelian notion place as inner surface containing body, envisions a very large indivisible extended existent above surrounds created world spatial sense.

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عنوان ژورنال: Arabica

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1570-0585', '0570-5398']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341641