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THE NLATERIALS IN THE WORKS OF AL-F.ii.RABI
AND IBN-SINA ON WHICH THE METAPHYSICAL
SECTION OF AL-Gr~ZALI'S MAQASID IS BASED.
by
Muhammad Mizanur Rahman,
B.A.(Hons), M.A.(D.U.), M.A.(R.U.).
Thesis presented for the Degree of Doctor
of Philosophy of the University of
Edinburgh in the Faculty of Arts.
October, 1966.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
ii
It gives me a great pleasure to record thanks and
gratitude to those who have rendered help in the writing of
this study. My greatest indebtedness is to the Rev.
Professor William Montgome~ Watt, M.A., B.Litt (Oxon), M.A.,
Ph.D. (Edin), who was my supervisor. It is mainly due to
his confidence in me, encouragement and guidance that I took
up this interesting and difficult subject. His comments and
suggestions on the first draft of this thesis were extremely
helpful and illuminating. Not only did he kindly help me in
solving intricate problems, but also he spent much of his
valuable time in going through this work with considerable
patient observation. Moreover, I have had from him and his
family the type of hospitality which may be associated with
that of the Arab and Far East traditions.
I am grateful to the Rev. James A. Gardiner,
ve~
M.A. (Aberdon and Cantab), B.D. (Edin), Lecturer in the
Religious Studies, Moray House College, for his generous
and unstinted assistance.
I express my thanks and gratitude to the Director of
Public Instruction, Government of East Pakistan for awarding
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the Scholarship and sponsoring this programme.
I thank the Librarians and staffs of the Libraries
of Edinburgh University, National of Scotland and
Libra~
London School of Oriental and African Studies for providing
me ever.y possible facility.
M. M. R.
CONTENTS
PAGE
ACKNOvVLEDGEMENTS i
T.ABLE OF ABREVIATI ON
V
GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER ONE
METHOD AND TECHNIQUES. 12
CHAPTER TWO
PROBLEM OF EXISTENCE. 25
CHAPTER THREE
DOCTRINE OF THE REALITY OF BODY. 68
CHAPTER FOUR
DOCTRINE OF THE INSEPARABLE RELATION
BETWEEN MATTER AND FORM. 96
CHAPTER FIVE
DOCTRINE OF ACCIDENTS. 123
CHAPTER SIX
GOD. 165
CHAPTER SEVEN
ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. 304
CHAPTER EIGHT
THEORY OF EMANATION. 385
CHAPTER NINE
CONCLUSION. 439
BIBLIOGRAPHY 444
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