The Journal of the American Oriental Society, April 1st, 1996
The primary focus of the present study is explicitly restricted to "one component of kalam cosmological speculation, namely physical theory" (p. 2), and, at that, within a fairly narrow scope. The work is based principally on Ibn Mattawayh's Tadhkira fi ahkam al-jawahir wal-arad together with an unpublished commentary by an unknown author, and on the Masail of Abu Rashid al-Nisaburi, though other pertinent texts are regularly cited. A brief introduction concerning the most important mutakallimun from the ninth into the eleventh centuries A.D. is followed by a relatively long presentation (pp...
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