Immateriality
“tajarrud”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
al-mujarrad · free of corporeality · immaterial · immaterial substances · mujarradah · mujarradah ʻan al-jismīyah · neither a body nor bodily · المجرد · ليس بجسم ولا جسماني · مجردة
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The property of being tajarrud, free of body and of subsistence in body, used as the criterion that separates spirit from soul and immaterial souls from bodily ones.
As for the spirit, what is understood by it among them is that it is a substance which is neither a body nor bodily, so that the intellects (ʿuqūl) and the souls both fall under it;
The difference between the soul and the spirit is that the spirit performs its act without depending upon a bodily instrument, whereas the soul does not work except by instruments.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Freedom from corporeality, the alternative to the bodily account of the jinn and the point of philosophical attack.
(And the second position) is that many people have affirmed that they are existents that do not occupy space and do not inhere in what occupies space, and have held that they are existents free of corporeality (mujarradah ʻan al-jismīyah).
It has already passed that there are in existence earthly souls, strong, not in the grossness of the predatory and bestial souls and their density and their scant perception, nor upon the configurations of human souls and their preparednesses, such that their attachment to dense bodies over which earthiness predominates would be entailed — nor in the purity of the immaterial souls and their subtle …
And know that a group of the philosophers (al-falāsifah) have impugned this doctrine, holding that the immaterial (al-mujarrad) cannot perceive particulars, and that immaterial things cannot be the agents of particular acts.