| Abstrakt: |
The majority of Muslim's philosophers including Ibn Sina and Al-Fârâbî supported the Aristotelian conception of time, and they also used it as an argument in their demonstration of the world's eternity. On the other hand, Muslim theologians (mutakallimūn) denied completely the existence of time, and affirmed the thesis of the world's beginning. Fakhr al-Din al-Râzî as a disciple of Ashʿarite school, who was influenced by Avicenna's Philosophy, criticized both, philosophical and theological conceptions of time. So he refused to deny the existence of time, and Aristotle's theory which defines time as a kind of number, or something dependent on change. In this study we will discuss how and why he refutes these two conceptions concerning the essence of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
