The Islamic Approach to Natural Philosophy

Daqiq Al-Kalam: The Islamic Approach to Natural Philosophy presents the works of theologians regarding Natural Philosophy including their views on space, time, motion, matter and the rest of the natural world.

These topics, called “Daqīq al-Kalām” complement the other part of kalām regarding divinity (Ilahiyat), called “Jalil al-Kalām”. The novel contribution of Altaie is his discovery that the scholars based their arguments on five basic principles:

• Temporality
• Atomism
• Continual re-creation
• Contingency and Indeterminacy of the world
• Integrity of space and time