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Taneli Kukkonen

Tyhjää täynnä. olematon islamilaisessa ajattelussa

Negatiivinen teologia eli kieltämisen tie sai varhain keskeisen sijan islamilaisen oppineisuuden tavassa puhua Jumalasta. Mikä myönnetään Jumalasta, tulee kieltää maailmasta ja mitä maailmaa koskien myönnetäänkin, tulee kiistää, kun puheena on Jumala. Mitä muuta Jumalasta sitten voidaankin tietää, vähintään voidaan sanoa, ettei Hän ole yhtä kuin maailma ja ettei kahdella ole mitään yhteistä: ”mikään ei ole Hänen kaltaisensa”, kuten Koraani toteaa ykskantaan (S. 42:11). peerReviewed

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Receptive to Reality: Al-Ghazālī on the Structure of the Soul

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Sense-Perception and Self-Awareness: Before and After Avicenna

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The Self as Enemy, the Self as Divine: A Crossroads in the Development of Islamic Anthropology

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Al-Ghazālī on Accidental Identity and the Attributes

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al-Ġazālī, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad

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Ibn Rushd, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥafīd (Averroes)

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Al-Ghazāī on the Signification of Names

AbstractAl-Ghazālī’s most detailed explanation of how signification works occurs in his treatise on The Beautiful Names of God. Al-Ghazālī builds squarely on the commentary tradition on Aristotle’s Peri hermeneias: words signify things by means of concepts and correspondingly, existence is laid out on three levels, linguistic, conceptual, and particular (i.e. extramental). This framework allows al-Ghazālī to put forward what is essentially an Aristotelian reading of what happens when a name successfully picks out a being: when a quiddity is named by some kind term, its referent in the mind is formally identical to the quiddity of an individual existent which belongs to that natural kind. Al…

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History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche * By IAN ALMOND

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Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900 * By KHALED EL-ROUAYHEB

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Inspired Knowledge in Islamic Thought. Al-Ghazali's theory of mystical cognition and its Avicennian foundation By ALEXANDER TREIGER

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