Ibn Qudama's Censure of Speculative Theology by George Makdisi human history

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the words penned by Muhammad Salwat Noor al-Deen in the introduction should be sufficient incentive for the Muslim to read this book

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Ibn Qudama's Censure of Speculative Theology by George Makdisi human historyThe distinguishing mark of speculative theologians being their use of allegorical interpretation (tawil) in dealing with the Koranic verses concerning the divine attributes, Ibn Qudama devotes the greater part of his treatise to its censure. His objection to its use is not based merely on the rather negative theory that the Ancestors made no use of it, but principally on its evident censure, in no uncertain terms, in the Koran itself. The principal