ABSTRACT
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi and his successors. To put all these philosophies in the same bag is the surest way to understand nothing in the history of philosophic thought.
Moreover, the most "orthodox" thinkers could perfectly grasp philosophic thought and conceive their own philosophy. I am not referring to Ibn Hazm and his book on the various philosophic systems, but to Ibn Taymiyyah, who is well recognized as the representative par excellence of "orthodoxy". It is enough to carefully read his book Answer to the Logicians (Ff-radd cald al-mantiqiym) or his several-volume work On the Protection against the Opposition of Reason and Transmission (Dar^ tacdrud al-caql wa*lNaql) to convince oneself of his philosophic competence.
