Excursus II: Ungodly Cosmologies
This article examines the cosmological theories of the so-called Dahrīs and Zindīqs from their pre-Islamic roots until the fourth/tenth century, when they and their Muʿtazilite opponents ceased to be the predominant exponents of what we call natural science. Both Dahrīs and Zindīqs were empiricists,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The Oxford handbook of Islamic theology
Year: 2014 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This article examines the cosmological theories of the so-called Dahrīs and Zindīqs from their pre-Islamic roots until the fourth/tenth century, when they and their Muʿtazilite opponents ceased to be the predominant exponents of what we call natural science. Both Dahrīs and Zindīqs were empiricists, some in a dogmatist and others in a sceptical vein; both drew on ideas of pre-Islamic Greek and Iranian origin; and both left a deep imprint on the cosmology and epistemology of the Muʿtazilites (to whom we owe practically all our knowledge about them). Their beliefs can be followed well past the fourth/tenth century, but henceforth it was mostly as components of philosophy and (at least in post-Mongol Iran) of Sufism that they attracted attention. |
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| ISBN: | 0199696705 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of Islamic theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.006 |