Ibn Taymiyya and the God of the Philosophers
Adrien Candiard, O.P. PhD candidate and IDEO member icon-calendar Tuesday April 23ʳᵈ, 2019 In the ninth volume of his large book Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql, which constitutes a precise and extremely informed refutation of rationalist ideas, Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) devotes almost fifty pages to the refutation of Aristotle’s metaphysical ideas, as