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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 2212-9421
- eISSN
- 2212-943X
- DOI
- 10.1163/2212943x-20201025
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
AbstractThis article argues that astronomers’ discourses about cosmology, specifically their arguments for an ordered cosmos comprised of uniformly revolving orbs, were in a conversation with ʿilm al-kalām during the period under discussion, which is from the end of the fourteenth century through the mid-sixteenth century. In kalām, Taftāzānī’s Sharḥ al-Maqāṣid contended that the astronomers’ views of cosmic order were but a conviction (iʿtiqād) for which there was no demonstration. Mīrim Çelebī’s commentary on the popular astronomy text al-Risāla al-Fatḥiyya noted, however, the theological value of the astronomers’ ordered cosmos. Another astronomer contemporary with Mīrim Çelebī, Bīrjandī, was well-versed in kalām texts and certainly agreed with other astronomers about how the cosmos was ordered. Yet Bīrjandī did not explore the theological ramifications of an ordered cosmos.
Journal
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World – Brill
Published: Dec 10, 2020