Muṣṭafā Ṣabrī on Waḥdat al-Wuǧūd and its Philosophical Origins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16643295 |
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| Authors | Muhammad Sami (0000-0002-2301-3782, Pembroke College Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 474-512 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arabica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0570-5398 • E-ISSN: 1570-0585 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700585-20246899 |
| OpenAlex | W4404127540 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This article studies the critique of waḥdat al-wuǧūd penned by Muṣṭafā Ṣabrī (d. 1954), one of the last Ottoman ş eyhülislams . Ṣabrī’s critique echoes those written by previous theologians such as al-Taftāzānī while simultaneously criticising their shortcomings. In Ṣabrī’s view, waḥdat al-wuǧūd originates in what he calls “the divinization of existence”: the identification of God’s essence with his existence, a doctrine held by Muslim peripatetics and adopted by several philosophical theologians. It is just because they failed to locate such an origin that Ṣabrī believes previous critiques of the Akbarian doctrine were not adequate
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| Highly cited | No |
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