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

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" Dahrīs - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Crone, Patricia

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061343
Doc. NO	:	ALei1740
Main Entry	:	Crone, Patricia
Title & Author	:	Dahrīs - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Crone, Patricia
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(4,194 words)
Abstract	:	Dahrīs were thinkers in the early Islamic world whose cosmology left little or no room for God. Usually translated ‘materialists” or “eternalists,” the term has also been used in a generic sense for anyone, such as a modern scientist, who deems the universe to be explicable without reference to divine intervention. 1. The early Dahrīs The Dahrīs are first mentioned in Iraq in the 120s/740s. By profession they seem mostly to have been doctors, astrologers, alchemists, and others interested in the workings of the natural world. In intellectual style
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1740.pdf