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An Analysis of the Section on Causality in Khojazada's Tahafut
(SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ASSOC-ILMI ETUDLER DERNEGI-ILEM, 2016) Kılıç, Muhammet Fatih
In this article, the nineteenth section of Khojazada's (d. 893/1488) Tahafut, which was devoted to the problem of causality in an example of the works under the same title written during the fifteenth century and composed with the patronage of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (d. 886/1481), is subjected to a critical analysis. His discussion follows a critical course with respect to al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111) in context. This could be detected most clearly in his vindication of Avicenna (d. 428/1037) against al-Ghazali's accusation of the philosophers' denial of miracles. Moreover, Khojazada's discussion has certain differences with al-Ghazali's at both the conceptual and the argumentative levels. The most striking differences at the argumentative level is Khojazada's grounding of his own conception of revelation and miracles on Avicennia's, rather than al-Ghazali's, theory of prophethood. By the same token, he offered a practical response to the imputation that the Avicennian system leaves no room for the possibility of miracles. At the conceptual level, furthermore, he distinguished between complete and incomplete causes, in contradistinction with al-Ghazali, and thereby opened another ground in order to demonstrate the inability of those natures that he viewed as incomplete causes to produce their own effects. On the other hand, Khojazada concurs with al-Ghazali that causality did not presume an ontological necessity, yet this condition did not incur defects on the certainty of our knowledge.
The Emergence of the Distinction between Complete and Incomplete Causes from Avicenna to al-Abhari
(SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ASSOC-ILMI ETUDLER DERNEGI-ILEM, 2017) Kılıç, Muhammet Fatih
In this study, I explore the historical stages of the development of the distinction between complete and incomplete causes (al-'illa al-tamma and al-'illa al-naqisa), which first emerged during the thirteenth century and was frequently in use thereafter in philosophical and theological writings. For this purpose, I trace the evolution of one such passage in Avicenna's (d. 428/1037) Isharat, namely, III.V.8, in the context of causal sufficiency during post-classical Islamic thought. Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi (d. 547/1152), Suhrawardi (d. 587/1191), and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1210), all of whom provided the first examples of a concept of a complete cause, offer an important notion of this distinction. Moreover, we can read al-Razi's definition of a complete cause in his al-Matalib, with regard to its function, as an attempt to include the divine will in the causal processes. However, none of those definitions present a clear distinction between these two types of causes that would enable one to provide a clear definition for a complete cause. The first examples of a clear distinction between these two causes are provided by Athir al-Din al-Abhari (d. 663/1265) and Najm al-Din al-Katibi (d. 675/1277). This distinction occupied an essential place in the chapters of causality included within philosophical and theological texts written after the thirteenth century.
İbni Sina'nın hudis yorumu
(Mustafa Çevik, 2011) Kılıç, Muhammet Fatih
In this article, I shall deal with the concept of huduth (origination) as contextualized by CU Avicenna, which emerges in the context of relation between God and the world, while relating the coming into existence of the world with temporality. Avicenna discusses that there are two kinds of origination according to his classification of the celestial and sublunary world in ontology. Rational beings, celestial souls and bodies, heavenly motion and time depend on this motion are known as essential coming into existence (huduth dhdti). These things are eternal from the point of view of temporality. There is no time difference between them and God who is the ultimate cause of them. The sublunary world consists of matter and bodies of generation and corruption. The various movements of these bodies and the time that depends on the movements are of the topic: temporal coming into existence (huduth zamani).

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