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" Emanation - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
D'Ancona, Cristina
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English
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1061508
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ALei1905
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D'Ancona, Cristina
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Emanation - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ D'Ancona, Cristina
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(5,450 words)
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The doctrine of emanation ( fayḍ) plays an important role in Arabic-Islamic philosophy, even though it was rejected, for different reasons, by theologians such as al-Ghazālī (d. 515/1111) and philosophers such as Ibn Rushd (Averroës, d. 595/1198). It is rooted in Greek philosophy and was transmitted to Arabic-speaking scholars during the translation of Greek works, especially those of Neoplatonic phil-osophy. In Greek philosophy, “emanation” is a metaphor, whose philosophical use, although attested in various contexts, from the Presocratics to the Stoics, becomes prominent only in
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Islam.
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ALei1905.pdf
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