By Ilyass Amharar Where the Previous Essay Left Off The previous essay set out the grammatical anatomy of the phrase fawqa ʿarshihi al-majīd bi-dhātih (and that He is above His glorious Throne by His essence) in the theological preamble to Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī’s (d. 386/996) Risāla (Treatise). The essay reached a deliberately narrow conclusion.[1] Of the readings the Arabic admits, only one produces a theological difficulty. Such a reading …
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