Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 10 anchored passages
al-Rāzī · الفخر الرازي · al-Fakhr al-Rāzī · الرازي · Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Rāzī · al-Fakhr · the Imām Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī · الأمام فخر الدين الرازى · فخر الدين الرازى · فخر الدين محمد بن عمر الرازي
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The commentator and theologian named fifth among the philosophers of Islam whose views on the jinn the book will report.
(As for *the second aim*) it is on the views of the philosophers of Islam concerning the jinn:
Why then may it not be said that those immaterial substances named the jinn and the satans have corporeal instruments from the sphere of ether (kurat al-athīr) or from the sphere of intense cold (kurat al-zamharīr), and that then, by means of those corporeal instruments, they are strong enough to perceive particulars and to act within these bodies?
He said in the discussions on seeking refuge, in the early part of his commentary:
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The Ashʿarī theologian and philosopher cited as the author of a very large book on the soul, running to more than twenty quires, which the present author once planned to expand with a commentary before choosing brevity.
For I had seen a book on the soul (nafs) by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī — may God have mercy on him — whose bulk exceeded twenty quires, and it had been my resolve to write a commentary and exposition upon it, so that what I wrote would be somewhat larger than it;
so I made for the Imām Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, who was the unique man of the age and the kinds of whose sciences passed all reckoning.
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The theologian and exegete whose Qur'an commentary the author condemns as a source of doubt, and whom the annotator defends as the preserver of lost exegetical literature and the fairest of disputants toward his opponents, faulted only for slackening before his refutations are complete.
al-Rāzī — and in it are perplexities and raisings of doubt which ought not to be listened to, for they bewilder and sicken and bring to ruin, and they slake no thirst.
[20] (1) Al-Rāzī has laid the scholars of the community under a great obligation by what he has immortalized in his book of citations from commentaries that the Islamic world has lost — even if there is in his commentary something to be taken exception to.
rather the teachers pore over the commentary of al-Fakhr
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The theologian whose philosophy the editor characterises as religious and doctrinal, listed among the greatest mutakallimun and credited with famous writings, some translated into European languages.
And since the principles of Greek philosophy and its sisters comprised foundations of paganism which contradict the principles of the Islamic religion, whose foundation is the profession of unity, a people appeared who framed rational principles in accord with the Islamic principles, and undertook the demolition of whatever in those views contradicted the rules of the Islamic law — and these are t …
[14] (3) He is Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Rāzī, one of the great men of learning.