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1. Aristotle 1 authority · 3 neutral · 2 refuted 6 citations

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   ch. 2 · ch. 3 · ch. 4 · as for the rational soul · ch. 6

   6 citations

   while for Aristotle, although it is not material, the existence of the body is a condition for the overflowing of the soul to it from the Originator, exalted be He — so that upon his view the soul is not existent before the body.

2. Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 1 authority · 2 neutral 3 citations

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   ch. 3 · ch. 6

   3 citations

   and it is that bodies and matter are never disjoined from particulars whose origination the self-evident has decreed, and whatever is of this description must be originated.

3. Blaise Pascal 2 endorsed 2 citations

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   ch. 4

   2 citations

   our conceiving goes astray at that idea, and that is the greatest sign indicating God's power over all things (2).

4. Plato 2 neutral 2 citations

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   ch. 2 · ch. 3 · ch. 6

   2 citations

   And the existence of the bodily temperament (*mizāj*) is only a condition of the soul's emanating from its Originator, so that it may govern the body — on the doctrine of “Aristotle” — and of its attachment to it, if it was existent before the body, and that is on the doctrine of “Plato.

5. Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 2 extended 2 citations

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   as for the rational soul · ch. 6

   2 citations

   ”) And when the philosopher had laid down these premises, he set about mentioning the demonstrations which are the extent of the knowledge of the philosophers and the men of learning in the question of the soul's immateriality — and which, as we set forth before, are nothing but the disclosure of the truth from the appearance of its proper effects.

6. Baruch Spinoza 1 neutral 1 citation

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   ch. 4

   1 citation

   And he says in another article of his that whoever denies the existence of God as Spinoza conceived Him is a fool;

7. Galileo Galilei 1 endorsed 1 citation

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   ch. 4

   1 citation

   and it had a mighty dominion over their souls until Galileo discovered, in the year 1609 (1), the rotation of the earth and laid down the new system in astronomy.

8. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1 neutral 1 citation

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   as for the rational soul

   1 citation

   [23] (1) (Hegel), a celebrated German philosopher and researcher, born in the year 1770 — 1831

9. John Locke 1 neutral 1 citation

   Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

   ch. 3

   1 citation

   [14] (5) Prime matter, for Locke — the philosopher, author of the book *An Inquiry into the Human Understanding*, born in the year 1632 and died in the year 1704 — is necessary and inseparable.

10. Novum Organum Francis Bacon 1 endorsed 1 citation

    Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

    ch. 4

    1 citation

    He was born in London « Londres », and he rescued philosophy from collapse by writing a volume which he named « Novum Arganum ».

11. Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

    Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

    ch. 2

    1 citation

    Plutarch (Fluṭarkhus), in his treatise on *Natural Opinions* (*al-Ārāʼ al-Ṭabīʻīyah*), ascribed to him that Plato says that bodies were in the beginning in motion, a motion not ordered, and that the God arranged them in order, since order is better than the absence of order.

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Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad

The Qur'an ¶ · The doctrine of spontaneous generation · A saying of Victor Hugo on death · Anaximander's work on the Infinite · Athar al-Shi'ah al-Imamiyah · Averroes's commentary on the philosophy of Aristotle · Biographical notice of Jean Paul · Broca's discovery of the cerebral centre of speech · Darwiniana · Fawat al-Wafayat · Harvey's testimony from dissection · Huxley's article on the denial of God · Ibn Rushd's argument from the outward sense of the Law · Ibn Rushd's commentary on the philosophy of Aristotle · Ibn Rushd's exposition of Aristotle's philosophy · Ibn Sina's demonstration for prime matter · Ibn Sina's ode on the soul · Ibn Sina's treatise on the soul · Ihya' al-Ulum · Jawami al-kalim · Joly's inference from the world of insects · Kanj Danish · Lavoisier's rule on matter · Lavoisier's rule that nothing is created and nothing annihilated · Le Bon's doctrine of the force latent in the atoms · Malebranche's division of beings into four kinds · Maqasid al-Falasifah · Marginal glosses on the delimiting pointing · Newton's four letters against the materialists · Pasteur's statement on the knowledge of God · Renan's study of the philosophy and life of Averroes · Richter's view on the germs that fill the void · Sirr tatawwur al-umam · Spiritual philosophy · Tahafut al-Falasifah · The Curies' discovery of radium · The French proverb of the Breton peasant · The charge that Averroes held a philosophy contrary to Islam · The compositions of Ibn Sīnā · The consensus of the natural scientists on matter and force · The discourse of the men of learning on the soul · The doctrine of Anaximander on the limitless and on the origin of animals · The doctrine of Archelaus on the principle of the world · The doctrine of Democritus on the minute particles and the soul · The doctrine of Empedocles on the aether and the elements · The doctrine of Epicurus on the principles of things and on the soul · The doctrine of Ibn Rushd on memory · The doctrine of growth and ascent · The doctrine of the ancients and the philosophers of Islam on memory · The doctrine of the materialists on the soul and intellect · The doctrine of the philosophers of Islam on matter and spirit · The doctrine of the sages of Islam and the philosophers of the Greeks on the external senses · The doctrine of the spiritualists on the rational soul · The doctrine of the theologians of Islam · The findings of the verifying sages on the survival of the soul · The hadith that God was and there was nothing with Him · The materialist doctrine that the soul is the interplay of physical forces · The modern theory of force and matter · The objection that consciousness is a peculiarity of matter · The opinion of the ancients on the seat of the sensory faculty · The science of psychology and physiology · The views of the materialists · The views of the theologians on force and matter · The writings of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi · The writings of al-Hilli on jurisprudence, theology, logic and astronomy · Verses of Ahmad Shawqi on the soul

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Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 5 citations · Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī 1 citation

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1. Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 1 authority · 2 neutral · 2 extended 5 citations · 19 passages

   ch. 3 3 passages anchored here · as for the rational soul · ch. 6 15 passages anchored here

   The proof is expressly attributed to al-Tusi and reported in full, and the immediately following paragraph registers its conflict with a modern rule rather than endorsing it.

   and it is that bodies and matter are never disjoined from particulars whose origination the self-evident has decreed, and whatever is of this description must be originated.

2. Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 6

   The work is cited for the philosophers' distinction between souls and spirits, reported as their position.

   the philosophers distinguish between souls and spirits, for souls in their view are simple immaterial substances attached to bodies, whereas spirits are bodies compounded of the vapours and fumes that rise from the blood confined in the veins.