This article explores how mutakallimun engaged with competing visions of the cosmos-traditionalist and Aristotelian-Ptolemaic-to the beginning of the sixth/ twelfth century. Drawing on works of kalam, Quran commentary, and items from other genres, I demonstrate that rationalist theologians remained divided on such questions as the shape of the earth to the end of this period. These disagreements, moreover, cannot be explained in terms of school affiliation. Based on a compre-hensive examination of published sources, I argue that cosmographical opinion among mutakallimun was a function of exposure to late ancient learning, intellec-tual formation, and personal inclination more than doctrinal commitment.
| Yazar: | Omar Anchassi |
| Yayın: | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| Cilt: | 142 |
| Sayı: | 4 |
| Sayfa: | 95-130 |
| Tarih: | 2022 |
| DOI: | 10.7817/jaos.142.4.2022.ar033 |
| ISSN: | 2169-2289 |
| URL: | https://lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jaos/article/view/2212 |
