AL-RĀZĪ ON THE THEOLOGIANS' MATERIALISM. Issue 1 (March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Awad, Amal A.
• Is Part Of: Arabic sciences and philosophy. Volume 33:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 83
• Page End: 111
• Publication Date: 2023-03
• Subjects: Learning and scholarship -- Arab countries -- History -- Periodicals; Science -- Arab countries -- History -- Periodicals; Philosophy, Arab -- History -- Periodicals; 181.92
• DOI: 10.1017/S0957423922000108
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0957-4239

Abstract

Abstract: Late 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 Almaṭālib 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.