Causality as a ‘Veil’: The Ashʿarites, Ibn ʿArabī (1165-1240) and Said Nursī (1877-1960)
This article explores the development of the idea of causality as a ‘veil’ within the Islamic tradition. More specifically, it examines how the rejection of the necessary connection between cause and effect in the writings of the Ashʿarites led to a highly sophisticated reconstruction of causality i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2016]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2016, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 455-470 |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BJ Islam KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Ibn ʿArabī
B Occasionalism B Science B Said Nursī B Ashʿarite B Veil B Causality |
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| Summary: | This article explores the development of the idea of causality as a ‘veil’ within the Islamic tradition. More specifically, it examines how the rejection of the necessary connection between cause and effect in the writings of the Ashʿarites led to a highly sophisticated reconstruction of causality in Ibn ʿArabī (1165-1240) and Said Nursī (1877-1960). It also indicates some of the possible bearings of the idea of causality-as-a-veil for the contemporary discussion on the reconciliation of religious and scientific claims on the nature of causality. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9311 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2016.1194565 |