Faith and Reason in Islam by Ibrahim; Najjar Ibrahim;

Author:Ibrahim; Najjar, Ibrahim;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

1. As in Müller, Philosophic und Theologie von Averroes.

2. As in “A” only.

3. Qur’an 42: 11.

4. Qur’an 16: 17.

5. Added in “A”.

6. Deleted in “B”.

7. Qur’an 25: 58.

8. Qur’an 2: 255.

9. Deleted in “S”.

10. Qur’an 20: 52.

11. Qur’an 40: 57.

12. Qur’an 30: 30.

13. Qur’an 35: 41.

14. Qur’an 2: 255.

15. Deleted in “A”.

16. Qur’an 42: 10.

17. The term in Arabic is Mūlshi’a which denotes reductionism. The opposite term is Mukthira or maximalism or pluralism.

18. Al-Sunna.

19. As eclectics are prone to do.

20. Qur’an 44:2.

21. Qur’an 35: 10.

22. Qur’an 70: 4.

23. Qur’an 89: 22.

24. The reference is to Qur’an 3: 6 which distinguishes between ambiguous and non-ambiguous (or sound) verses.

25. Deleted in “A”.

26. Deleted in “B”.

27. Deleted in “B”.

28. Qur’an 17: 85.

29. Qur’an 2: 258. The rest of the passage is: “‘Allah brings the sun from the East, brings it up from the West.’ Thereupon the unbeliever was confounded. Allah does not guide the wrongdoers.”

30. This addition exists only in “S”.

31. His being one-eyed.

32. The general public or common people.

33. Qur’an 24: 35.

34. Author of an accredited collection of Prophetic Traditions (Ḥadiths), known as Sahib Mūslim.

35. Deleted in “A”.

36. In “S” and Müllen existence.

37. In “A”: the soul.

38. Al-Juwayni, teacher of Al-Ghazāli (d. 1086).

39. Qur’an 69: 17.

40. Qur’an 32: 5.

41. Qur’an 70: 4.

42. Qur’an 67: 16.

43. Reference to Prophet Muḥammad’s ascendance to heaven, called al-Isra.

44. Or the outermost heavenly sphere.

45. Qur’an 40: 57.

46. By this group, Ibn Rushd means the Mutakallimun. The third group is that of the philosophers or “people of demonstration” and is not explicitly mentioned in this passage.

47. The Mutakallimun.

48. Qur’an 2:26.

49. Qur’an 3: 6.

50. Deleted in “B”.

51. As in “A”.

52. Or, heresy.

53. Meaning logic and mathematics, which Al-Ghazāli did not denounce, as he had done in the case of metaphysics and parts of physics.

54. Or logic.

55. In “A”: and benrfcial to them in another respect.

56. In “A” there is the addition: in something.

57. Or The Decisive Treatise on the Relation of Religion and Philosophy

58. Qur’an 6: 103. In Arberry’s translation: “The eyes attain Him not, but He attains the eyes.”

59. Deleted in “B”.

60. In “B” the apprehension of sight.

61. In Aristotelian physics, this is the diaphanous medium identified with ether. (Cf. De anima II, 418 b7.)

62. In “A” the existing ones.

63. In “A” on page 59, there is this addition: “[It would not be possible] to see what is not a body. It is absurd that it can be seen qua colored, because if this were the case, then color would not be seen, and it is absurd to see, etc.”

64. As in “S”.

65. Al-Mutakallimun.

66. In Ash‘arite theology, these states are modes of being, distinct from both the entity or accidents pertaining to it.

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