al-Bāqillānī’s Argument for the Existence of God

By Nazif Muhtaroglu Although it is common to list several types of kalām arguments for the existence of God in the sense that they are stand-alone arguments that purport to show the existence of God individually, I will challenge this way of reading kalām texts by focusing on al-Bāqillānī’s Kitāb al-Tamhīd.[1] A close reading of…