Tahafut_al-Tahafut-transl-Engl-van-den-Bergh

THE FOURTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute their proof that heaven is an animal
mowing in a circle in obedience to God
THE FIFTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute the theory of the philosophers about the
aim which moves heaven
THE SIXTEENTH DISCUSSION: To refute the philosophical theory that the souls of
the heavens observe all the particular events of this world
ABOUT THE NATURAL SCIENCES
THE FIRST DISCUSSION: The denial of a logical necessity between cause and
effect
THE SECOND DISCUSSION: The impotence of the philosophers to show by
demonstrative proof that the soul is a spiritual substance
THE THIRD DISCUSSION: Refutation of the philosophers’ proof for the immortality of
the soul
THE FOURTH DISCUSSION: Concerning the philosophers’ denial of bodily
resurrection
The End
PREFACE
I wish to express my warmest thanks to the Trustees of the Gibb Memorial
Fund for making the publication of this work possible, and especially to
Professor Sir Hamilton Gibb, who asked me to undertake the work and
who has not only read the proofs but has continually given me his interest
and encouragement. I am also deeply indebted to Dr. R. Walzer, who has
read the proofs, carefully checked the references in my notes, and
composed the indexes and the Greek-Arabic and Arabic-Greek
vocabularies. I have also to thank Dr. S. M. Stern for his help in
completing the subject-index. Finally, I wish to pay a tribute to one who is
no longer amongst us, Father Maurice Bouyges, without whose admirable
text the work could never have been undertaken.
The marginal numbers in Vol. I refer to the text of Father Bouyges’s
edition of the Tahafut al Tahafut in his Bibliotheca Arabica Scholasticorum,
vol. iii, Beyrouth, 1930.
The asterisks indicate different readings from those to be found in
Bouyges’s text: cf. the Appendix, Vol. I, pp, 364 ff.
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