Yaḥyā Ibn ‘Adī on a <i>Kalām </i>Argument for CreationOxford Studies in Medieval PhilosophySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/GHZRVR3M/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.PeterAdamsonRobertWisnovskyYaḥyā Ibn ‘Adī on a <i>Kalām </i>Argument for Creationhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/GHZRVR3Mhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/GHZRVR3Mhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/GHZRVR3MOxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy52017213-239This article offers an analysis, translation, and edition of a brief, recently uncovered Arabic text by the tenth-century CE Christian Aristotelian thinker Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī. Ibn ʿAdī here takes issue with an argument for the existence of God, widely used in kalām (Islamic theology). According to this argument, bodies cannot exist without being either in motion or at rest; motion and rest must begin; therefore all bodies and hence the universe as a whole must have begun. Ibn ʿAdī diagnoses various flaws in this reasoning, including a supposed part–whole fallacy. The analysis of the text shows how it fits into Ibn ʿAdī’s intellectual profile and the project of the Baghdad Aristotelian school.
Adamson, Peter, and Robert Wisnovsky. “Yaḥyā Ibn ‘Adī on a Kalām Argument for Creation.” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 5 (2017): 213–39.
Peter Adamson and Robert Wisnovsky, Yaḥyā Ibn ‘Adī on a Kalām Argument for Creation,” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 5 (2017): 213–39.Arab ChristiansJacobitesVII-XVIII CEX CEYahya b. Adicreationphilosophyprimary sources [Arabic] + English translation