The heavenly phenomena : a study of Abu Barakat al-Baghdadi's Kitab al-Mu'tabar

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to study four chapters of the second part of volume two of al-Baghdadi's Kitab al-Mu 'tabar . The book was written in Baghdad and was known as the book about what has been established by Abu'l Barakat personal reflection. The work shows that this Kitab represents a non-Aristotelian trend in Islamic philosophy and Abu'I Barakat idea is remarkable and original. The chapter that we have selected covers topics such as the supposed impenetrability of the heaven, the question out of which material the heaven is made, the fact that there is no change in the heaven and finally the principles and properties of the terrestrial elements.