Article ID: CBB000932572

The Simple Ontology of Kalām Atomism: An Outline (2009)

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Sabra, A. I. (Author)


Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 14
Pages: 68--78


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of special issue: Evidence and Interpretation: Studies on Early Science and Medicine in Honor of John E. Murdoch
Language: English

This paper aims to present concisely the Islamic kalam atomism as an alternative philosophy to Hellenizing falsafa. Kalam is a theological-philosophical discourse which, first (in the third/ninth century) ventured to rival the falsafa represented early by al-Kindi (d.ca. 252/866), then by al-Farabi and Avicenna in the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries, and which eventually (in the sixth/twelfth century and after) appeared to be inclined to propose a mingling of the kalam discourse with falsafa in a series of varied "syntheses".---Focusing on the simple ontology of the basic kalam atomism, and noting the hybrid character of kalam, the aim of this paper is to help to clarify the inevitable problematic consequences of those late ventures of Islamic intellectualism.

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Authors & Contributors
Zghal, Hatem
Lizzini, Olga
Adamson, Peter
Street, Tony
Schoeler, Gregor
Robinson, James T.
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Philosophy
Logic
Cosmology
Aristotelianism
Grammar
Time Periods
Medieval
10th century
Ancient
9th century
11th century
Places
Mediterranean region
Byzantium
Europe
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