Islam turned away from the natural philosophers for a valid religious reason. The triumphant Ashari school believed that the trend of philosophy to see the world primarily through chains of cause and effect, as science and logic do, rules out an omnipotent Creator. How could the source of the world and its natural laws be ordered about and restricted by His creations? This, they ruled, is idolatry — worshipping a created thing, either the laws o…
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