Vesadhati Heydarpor, Mostafa; Hosseinee, Ahmad; Eimanpor, Mansor

doi:10.22034/hpi.2025.513169.1143

"Investigating al-Kindi's Historical Sources Regarding the Temporal Creation of the world"

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

mostafa vesadhati Heydarpor ¹

Ahmad Hosseinee ²

Mansor Eimanpor ³

¹ Azarbaijan shahid Madani University

² Azarbigan shahid Madani University

³ ,Shahid Madani University of Azerbigan

10.22034/hpi.2025.513169.1143

Abstract

Proclus is the author of a treatise titled "Proclus' Arguments on the Eternity of the World". Influenced by the principles and teachings of Plato and Aristotle, he defended the eternity of the world in this treatise through eighteen arguments. Later, Philoponus criticized and refuted these eighteen arguments. To defend the creation of the world, he launched a comprehensive attack on Aristotle's physics and, as the pioneer of arguments for the creation of the world and the finitude of motion and time based on the concept of infinity, rejected the eternity of the world. Based on this, he authored two books titled "Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World" and "Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World". During the translation movement, both books were translated by Muslim scholars; however, due to the loss of the Arabic translations of these two books, the position of Philoponus' ideas in the views of Muslim thinkers was not clarified. By examining and studying the dialectic of Aristotle and Proclus with Philoponus on the eternity of the world, it becomes evident that Islamic thinkers, such as al-Kindi, were influenced by the ideas present in this dialectic in their perspectives on the creation of the world. Therefore, this study strives to analyze, examine, and compare these ideas across two realms of history.

Keywords

Aristotle

Proclus

Philoponus

Kennedy

Traversal Argument

Subjects

The evolution of philosophical thought in Islam

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