Ash'arism

▤ Reading group: al-Ghazālī and Ibn Rushd on whether the world had a beginning

The longest chapter of al-Ghazālī's Incoherence of the Philosophers is the first, on the philosophers' doctrine that the world is eternal. Nearly a century later Ibn Rushd answered it, line by line, in The Incoherence of the Incoherence. I have read summaries…