Ibn Taymiyyah on Creation ex Materia

This book is the second installment in a series translating the theological works of Ibn Taymiyyah. It covers a range of topics including the evidence of God’s perfection, signs of Prophethood, divine creative agency, and the compatibility of divine predestination with human moral agency. The series aims to present Ibn Taymiyyah’s superior rational arguments in Islamic Faith to English-speaking readers, countering the claims of other religions and philosophies. In response to the growing trend of atheism, this series is particularly relevant, offering intellectual satisfaction through Ibn Taymiyyah’s insightful explanations of Qur’anic arguments. In “Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyyah,” Ibn Taymiyyah argues against the idea that creation is merely a rearrangement of pre-existing matter, promoting instead a scriptural definition involving the origination of substances in place of others. This concept, akin to ex nihilo creation, suggests that new creations arise from prior materials that cease to exist. This allows Ibn Taymiyyah to argue for an eternal Originator using empirical observations without asserting that the world was created ex nihilo in the unobservable past.

Publisher: Dar Al-Arqam
Author: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
Pages: 288
Cover: Softcover