Metaphysics
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metaphysics · al-falsafah al-ilāhīyah · divine philosophy · metaphysical inquiries · the Alif, the Bāʼ · the books upon which he inscribed the letters · what is after nature · الالف والباء · الالهيات · الفلسفة الالهية
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
Philosophical theology, held by the author to occupy a domain wholly opposed to prophetic teaching, so that no one whose salvation is hoped for looks into it or leans on believing it.
For this science is on one side and what the messengers brought is on another.
( The Science of Philosophy (*al-ḥikmah*) )
Ancient Law
The field of metaphysical philosophy, discussed as largely independent of Roman legal influence.
and though metaphysics and metaphysical theology were engrossing the mental energies of multitudes of Roman subjects, the phraseology employed in these ardent inquiries was exclusively Greek, and their theatre was the Eastern half of the Empire.
I have already said that, with the exception of the physical sciences, there is no walk of knowledge which has been so slightly affected by Roman law as Metaphysics.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The science of what is after nature, treating beings subsisting outside matter and imagination, contained in the books titled by letters and placed last in both the division and the curriculum.
Then he made, on what is after nature, his books upon which he inscribed the letters, those known as the Alif, the Bāʼ and what comes after them;
then he should look into the natural things and what is after them, in the order that preceded.
and of the things that are not in matter, some are abstracted in matter, their existence being in the imagination (wahm) with no existence for them from outside, and some are not abstracted from matter but have an existence in their own essence, outside the imagination.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The science of divine things, which the Arab authors are said to have joined to logic
and all the authors of the Arabs followed their example, though some of them kept a middle course and some expanded at length — except that most of them joined it to metaphysics (al-ilāhīyāt) and physics (al-ṭabīʻyāt).