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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Translator’s Introduction – English | |
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| Translator’s Introduction – Arabic | |
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| Author’s Introduction: [The religious preface] | |
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| [Author’s table of contents] | |
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| Discussion:On refuting their doctrine of the world’s past eternity | |
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| The [philosophers’] first [proof] | |
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| [The philosophers’] second proof... | |
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| [The philosophers’] third proof... | |
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| [The philosophers’] fourth proof | |
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| Discussion:On refuting their statement on the post-eternity of the world, time, and motion | |
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| Discussion:On showing their obfuscation in saying that God is the world’s enactor and maker... | |
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| Regarding the first [aspect] | |
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| The second aspect | |
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| The third aspect | |
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| Discussion:On showing their inability to prove the existence of the Maker of the world | |
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| Discussion:On showing their inability to prove that God is one... | |
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| Discussion:[On the divine attributes] | |
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| Discussion:On refuting their statement that the First cannot share with another in terms of genus... | |
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| Discussion:On refuting their statement that the existence of the First is simple... | |
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| Discussion:On showing their inability to sustain a proof that the First is not a body | |
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| Discussion:On their inability to show that the world has a maker and a cause | |
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| Discussion:On showing the impotence of those among them who perceive that the First knows other[s] and knows the genera and species in a universal way | |
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| Discussion:On showing their inability to prove that He also knows Himself | |
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| Discussion:On refuting their statement that God... does not know the particulars divisible in terms of temporal division into what is, what was, and what will be | |
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| Discussion:On their inability to set a proof [to show] that heaven is an animal that obeys God... through its circular motion | |
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| Discussion:On refuting what they mentioned concerning the purpose that moves heaven | |
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| Discussion:On refuting their statement that the souls of the heavens know all the particulars that occur in this world... | |
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| The Natural Sciences [Introduction] | |
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| Discussion:[On causality and miracles] | |
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| Discussion:On their inability to sustain a rational demonstration [proving] that the human soul is a self-subsistent spiritual substance... | |
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| The first [proof] | |
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| A second proof | |
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| A third proof | |
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| A fourth proof | |
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| A fifth proof | |
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| A sixth proof | |
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| A seventh proof | |
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| An eighth proof | |
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| A ninth proof | |
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| A tenth proof | |
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| Discussion:On refuting their statement that it is impossible for human souls to undergo annihilation... | |
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| Discussion:On refuting their denial of bodily resurrection... | |
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| The Book’s Conclusion | |
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| Notes to the English Text | |
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| Notes to the Arabic Text | |
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| Index | |