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This article provides a first exploration of the debate on the eternity of the world in the works of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī (d. 631/1233) and Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. 663/1264). The focus on these two intellectuals is not random. Both al-Āmidī and al-Abharī have been renowned, influential thinkers and each is described in the secondary literature in seemingly unambiguous terms, either as an Ashʿarī theologian (in the case of al-Āmidī) or as an Avicennian philosopher (in the case of al-Abharī)...This article provides a first exploration of the debate on the eternity of the world in the works of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī (d. 631/1233) and Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. 663/1264). The focus on these two intellectuals is not random. Both al-Āmidī and al-Abharī have been renowned, influential thinkers and each is described in the secondary literature in seemingly unambiguous terms, either as an Ashʿarī theologian (in the case of al-Āmidī) or as an Avicennian philosopher (in the case of al-Abharī). Yet, neither of these descriptions is unproblematic, and so it is on the whole difficult to see whether al-Āmidī is an Avicennian at heart or an Ashʿarī partisan who resentfully defies Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's innovations in theology or, in turn, whether al-Abharī is an actual defender of the theological dogma or parroting Avicenna’s philosophy. Against this background, then, it may also be unclear what their position was towards the most pressing of questions, viz., whether the world existed for all eternity or is the result of an origination.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Philosophie