This man used a parableof a water clock to outline the role of judgment, decree, and predestination in his cosmology.
This man's ideas were reflected in his student's parable The Lion and the Diver. This man used a parableof a water clock to outline the role of judgment, decree, and predestination in his cosmology. One bookwritten by this man was divided into four parts, with the last outlining paths to salvation; that work was republishedas The Alchemy of Happiness. One work by this man is arranged into a series of 20 justifications,the 17th of which discusses the idea that God (*) rearranges atoms in order to assign accidents to bodies. In onework, this man stated that demonstrations, or burhan, cannot contradict revelation. This proponent of "secondarycausality" was criticized for putting God a step above the prime mover in a line-by-line refutation by Averroes. For10 points, name this philosopher who critiqued the Aristotelian tradition of Arabic philosophy in his Incoherence ofthe Philosophers.
This man's ideas were reflected in his student's parable The Lion and the Diver.
Al-Ghazali