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Ibn al-Tilimsānī (d.1260) on the Snares of Ontology

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The ongoing explorations of post-Avicennian philosophy and Islamic theology (kalam) have tended to focus on thinkers from the Islamic East. In this paper, I will try to show that attention to later North African scholars can help enrich and nuance our sense of the philosophical landscape after Avicenna. I focus on the discussion of the existence/essence distinction by Ibn al-Tilimsānī (d. 1260), an Ashʿarī theologian active in Egypt. His discussion reveals that there were still influential scholars who rejected the mainstream post-Avicennian view that existence is additional or extrinsic to contingent essences.

Source: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie

DOI: 10.1515/agph-2025-0127

Author: Khaled El-Rouayheb

Institution: Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Medieval and Classical Philosophy

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

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OpenAlex ID: W4415383073

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