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The Book of Distinctions in Religions, Heresies and Sects

c. 1040 · by Ibn Hazm

Survey and refutation of philosophical and religious positions – sceptics, those who hold the world eternal, dualists, Jews and Christians, whose scriptures Ibn Hazm examines critically, and the Muslim schools, among them the Ashʿarites; he argues from reason and from the apparent sense of revelation.

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