Jahm b. Ṣafwān (d. 128/745-46) and the ‘Jahmiyya’ and Ḍirār b. ʿAmr (d. 200/815)

The chapter is a first step on the way to classify the earliest Muslim theologians according to their position and role in the history of natural theology and philosophy. It argues that Jahm b. Ṣafwān and Ḍirār b. ʿAmr represent an empiristic theory according to which the sensible reality outside th...

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Main Author: Schöck, Cornelia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2014
In: The Oxford handbook of Islamic theology
Year: 2014
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)