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Thomas Aquinas and the Islamic Intellectual Tradition

Thomas Aquinas and the Islamic Intellectual Tradition

Thomas never refers to Muslims by their name.

Course code: IN218

Professor: Joseph Ellul

Description:

Thomas never refers to Muslims by their name. Given that, as was already stated, Islam in Mediaeval times was not considered as another religion different from Christianity, but rather as a heresy or some aberrant form of the Christian faith...

Table of content:

  1. Thomas Aquinas and Muslim-Christian Dialogue
  2. Metaphysical and physical agent causation Ibn Sīnā and Thomas Aquinas in dialogue
  3. Expressing the inexpressible: naming the one god in the summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas and in the writings of Abū Ḥāmid Al-Ġazālī