Asas al-Taqdis

Asās al-Taqdīs (Arabic: أساس التقديس, lit. 'The Foundation of Declaring Allah's Transcendence'), also known as Ta'sis al-Taqdis (Arabic: تأسيس التقديس, lit. 'The Establishment of the Sacred') is an Islamic theological book, written by the Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1209), as a methodical refutation of the Karramiyya and other anthropomorphists.[1][2]

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi wrote this work to counter the book Kitab al-Tawhid composed by the ultra-traditionalist Ibn Khuzayma (d. 311/923). He referred to Ibn Khuzayma as 'the corporealist' (al-mujassim).[3]

He said in the book's introduction that he dedicated it especially to the Sultan Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub.

  1. ^ Gibril Fouad Haddad. "Al-Fakhr al-Razi". sunnah.org. As-Sunnah Foundation of America. Archived from the original on 31 Oct 2020.
  2. ^ Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. "Asas al-Taqdis". maktaba-falsafia.com (in Arabic). La Librairie de Philosophie et de Soufisme.
  3. ^ Miriam Ovadia (2018). Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Divine Attributes. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies. Vol. 104. Brill Publishers. p. 288. ISBN 9789004372511.