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ISBN 13 | 9781915025555 |
ISBN 10 | 1915025559 |
Author | Basil Altaie |
Language | English |
Book Description | Islam & Natural Philosophy: Principles of Daqīq al-Kalām presents the works of theologians regarding Natural Philosophy, including their views on space, time, motion, matter and the rest of the natural world.These topics, called Daqīq al-Kalām, complement the other part of kalām regarding divinity (ilāhiyāt), called Jalīl al-Kalām. The novel contribution of Altaie is his discovery that the scholars based their arguments on five basic principles: temporality, atomism, continual re-creation, contingency and indeterminacy of the world and the integrity of space and time. |
About the Author | Basil Altaie is a scholar in theoretical physics and Islamic Kalām, and is Emeritus Visiting Professor at The University of Leeds. He has published many articles and contributed to many conferences in science and philosophy. He has published ten books in Arabic and two in English. His English books are published in the USA, UK and Malaysia. |
Publication Date | 20 March 2023 |
Number of Pages | 320 pages |
Islam and Natural Philosophy: Principles of Daqīq al-Kalām