AL-RĀZĪ ON THE THEOLOGIANS’ MATERIALISM
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Awad, Amal A
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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pLate in his intellectual life, Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī espoused a dualistic position on the nature of the soul, denying that the soul is in any sense a material body. This view, which in broad terms concurs with Avicenna’s, sets al-Rāzī in opposition to the theologians’ materialistic stance. To make his position clear, in his last work jats:italicAlmaṭālib</jats:italic> al-Rāzī sets out a comprehensive case for the theologians’ materialism, before critiquing that position. This paper offers a reconstruction of al-Rāzī’s arguments for the theologians’ materialism, providing an insight into arguments in the philosophy of mind during the Islamic Middle Ages.</jats:p>
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5004 Religious Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
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Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
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0957-4239
1474-0524
1474-0524
Volume Title
33
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)