ABSTRACT
Having grasped God's glory through observation of the heavens that God created, Nīsābūrī increasingly wanted to understand how God controls the heavens. Nīsābūrī's religious thought from the first decade of the fourteenth century, particularly his positions on key aspects of kalām, held that God's control over the cosmos was total, but also not at all capricious. If humans were capable of understanding how God's control over the cosmos was not capricious, then theoretical models that explained God's control over the cosmos could be valuable.
