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Al-Taftazānī

Born : 1322, Taftāzān, Khurāsān

Died : 1390, Samarqand

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A famous fourteenth-century theologian and jurisprudent, al-Taftāzānī is one of the last representatives of the high tide of Ash‘arite philosophical theology.

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  1. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä/Academy of Finland, 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Jari Kaukua

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  1. University of Verona, Mantova, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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Kaukua, J. (2015). Al-Taftazānī. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_10-1

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