Islam and Natural Philosophy: Principles of Daqīq al-Kalām

Islam & Natural Philosophy: Principles of Daqī
q al-Kalā
m presents the works of theologians regarding Natural Philosophy, including their views on space, time, motion, matter and the rest of the natural world.

These topics, called Daqī
q al-Kalā
m, complement the other part of kalā
m regarding divinity (ilā
hiyā
t), called Jalī
l al-Kalā
m. The novel contribution of Altaie is his discovery that the scholars based their arguments on five basic principles: temporality, atomism, continual re-creation, contingency and indeterminacy of the world and the integrity of space and time.