Islam and Natural Philosophy

Islam & Natural Philosophy: Principles of Daqq al-Kalm presents the works of theologians regarding Natural Philosophy, including their views on space, time, motion, matter and the rest of the natural world.These topics, called Daqq al-Kalm, complement the other part of kalm regarding divinity (ilhiyt), called Jall al-Kalm. The novel contribution of Altaie is his discovery that the scholars based their arguments on five basic principles: temporality, atomism, continual re-creation, contingency and indeterminacy of the world and the integrity of space and time.