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Ash™arite kalâm pursued the notion that God is the particularizing agent
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Al-Ghazâlî's understanding of the modalities developed in the context of Ash™arite kalâm and does not share the statistical model of Aristotle and Avicenna.
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In his Creed for Nizâm al-Mulk, al-Juwaynî explains the Ash™arite understanding of the modalities.
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While al-Ghazâlî's determinist cosmology is a radical but faithful interpretation of the Ash™arite tenet of divine pre-determination, the way al-Ghazâlî writes about it in his Revival and later works violates other principles of Ash™arism and has led to much confusion among modern interpreters.
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In Marmura's view, al-Ghazâlî never deviated from occasionalism, while he sometimes expressed his opinions in ambiguous language that mocked philosophical parlance, probably in order to lure followers of falsâfa into the Ash™arite occasionalist camp.
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Ash™arite kalâm developed an understanding that is closer to our modern view of the modalities as referring to synchronic alternative states of affairs.
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But such an implication was unacceptable for those holding the standard understanding of divine omnipotence, which al-GhazÄlÄ« and other philosophers of the Ash™arite theological tradition thought to be essential to kalÄm.
Occasionalism Lee, Sukjae 2008
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Brassiers bee a hole diffrunt fing too hate, an I hates it, arite.
I AM The Security System - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The significance of Ash ` arite Kalām in Islamic thought, besides the role it played as the opponent of philosophy and therefore the force that often caused the philosophers to take particular positions and an - swer particular questions, was its development of the theory of atomism already begun by the Mu ` tazilites.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968
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Ash ` arite theologians, with a few exceptions like al -
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968
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