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Struggling with the Philosopher

c. 1140 · by al-Shahrastani

Polemic against Ibn Sina planned in seven “bouts”, of which five were written: on the division of being, on the existence and unity of the Necessary Existent, on God’s knowledge and on the eternity of the world; Nasir al-Din al-Tusi answered it a century later.

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