Spiritual Beings in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī^|^apos;s Cosmology, with Special Reference to His Interpretation of the Mi‘rāj
Orient 2006 Kaoru Aoyagi 2 citations
This paper examines the interpretation of the mi‘rāj (the Prophet Mul;tammad's ascension to Heaven) of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.l209) on the basis of the cosmology, i.e., ontology, in his Koran exegesis (tafsīr), The Keys of the Invisible (Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb), and clarifies the mystical aspect of al-Rāzī's thought, to which few studies conducted thus far have paid attention. Further, it discusses...