الكلام والفلسفة
Kalām, Philosophy and Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyyah against al-Rāzī and the philosophers: ḥawādith, time and place, reason and revelation.
- Kalām and Its People in the Judgement of the Salaf The Salaf condemned ʿilm al-kalām — arguing for the religion with the premises of the philosophers about substances, accidents and bodies — and condemned its people with severe words: ʿUmar exiled Ṣabīgh, al-Shāfiʿī said that his judgement on the people of kalām was the judgement of…
- Al-Ashʿarī's Return to the Creed of Imām Aḥmad, and the Repentance of the Mutakallimūn Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī left the Muʿtazilah and, in al-Ibānah, declared that his creed was the creed of Imām Aḥmad. He affirmed there the istiwāʾ and the Hands, and laid down that the speech of Allah is taken by its apparent sense. The later Ashʿarīs said the…