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Beings and Their Attributes : The Teaching of the Basrian School of the Mutazila in the Classical Period Studies in Islamic Philosophy and Science
author
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Frank, Richard M.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780873953788
ebook isbn13
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9780585077703
language
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English
subject
Motazilites, Islam--Doctrines--History, Ontology.
publication date
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1978
lcc
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BP195.M6F73eb
ddc
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181/.07
subject
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Motazilites, Islam--Doctrines--History, Ontology.
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Studies in Islamic Philosophy and Science
Published under the auspices of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science
Editorial Board
George F. Hourani, State University of New York at Buffalo
Muhsin Mahdi, Harvard University
Parviz Morewedge, Baruch Cortege of City University of New York
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
Ehsan Yar-Shater, Columbia University
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Beings and Their Attributes
The Teaching of the Basrian School of the Mu`tazila in the Classical Period
Richard MacDonough Frank
State University of New York Press Albany, 1978
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Published by State University of New York Press Albany, New York 12246
Translation 1978 State University of New York All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Frank, Richard M Beings and their attributes.
(Studies in Islamic philosophy and science) Includes indexes. 1. Motazilites. 2. Islamic TheologyHistory. 3. Ontology. I. Title. II. Series. BP195.M6F73181'.0778-6957 ISBN o-87595-378-9
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To Jane
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1. The Background and Evolution of the Concept of the Attributes
8
2. The Ontological Structure of the Living Composite: Some General Notions
39
3. The Attribute of the Essence
53
4. The Essential Attributes
58
Essential Attributes and Characteristics .
58
Similarity and Difference .
64
The Modes of the Actuality of Attributes .
66
Attributes Ascribed to the Gins* and to the Naw'
72
5. Attributes Grounded in the Presence of an Accident
93
a) The 'akwan
95
b) Accidents that do not effect a state either of the substrate or of the totality
104
c) Accidents that effect a state of the composite whole as a totality but have no determinant effect on the substrate as substrate .
106
d) Accidents that necessitate a state of the total composite and also have a determinant effect on the substrate as such
107
Change
109
6. Attributes Determined by the Agent Who Causes the Existence of the Thing (bil-f `il)
124
"Derived Predicates" (as-sifat* al-mutaqqa)
135
7. Attributes and Characteristics that are Grounded Neither in the "Essence," Nor in an Entitative Accident
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