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The endeavour to prove God's existence through rational
argumentation was an integral part of classical Islamic theology
(kalam) and philosophy (falsafa), thus the frequently articulated
assumption in the academic literature. The Islamic discourse in
question is then often compared to the discourse on arguments for
God's existence in the western tradition, not only in terms of its
objectives but also in terms of the arguments used: Islamic
thinkers, too, put forward arguments that have been labelled as
cosmological, teleological, and ontological. This book, however,
argues that arguments for God's existence are absent from the
theological and philosophical works of the classical Islamic era.
This is not to say that the arguments encountered there are flawed
arguments for God's existence. Rather, it means that the arguments
under consideration serve a different purpose than to prove that
God exists. Through a close reading of the works of several
mutakallimun and falasifa from the 3rd-7th/9th-13th century, such
as al-Baqillani and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi as well as Ibn Sina and
Ibn Rushd, this book proffers a re-evaluation of the discourse in
question, and it suggests what its participants sought to prove if
it is not that God exists.
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