Atomism - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Atomism - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Dhanani, Alnoor

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060770
Doc. NO	:	ALei1167
Main Entry	:	Dhanani, Alnoor
Title & Author	:	Atomism - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Dhanani, Alnoor
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(3,728 words)
Abstract	:	Atomism holds that the exhaustive division of bodies results in indivisible parts. Two kinds of atomism are found in Islamic thought, that of the mutakallimūn and that of the philosopher-physician Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī (d. 313/925 or 323/935). Pre-Islamic systems of atomism include the Greek and the Indian. Greek atomism was formulated by Democritus and Leucippus, refuted by Aristotle, then reformulated by Epicurus. Besides finite division of bodies, Greek atomist cosmology held theories of motion and of the vacuum, and implied theories of
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1167.pdf