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Important Warning

The proofs of this article were sent to me whilst I was busy moving from Oxford

back to Brussels, and then to America. Al-arra, as Avicenna would have said, made

it impossible for me to correct them on time. Unfortunately, there are therefore a lot

of mistakes left in the version published by OUP.

The editor of the book greatly improved the language of the text that I had

originally submitted and I am very grateful to him. Several editorial changes were

however introduced that distorted my thought, sometimes gravely, as well as the

views of Ibn Taymiyya, in the translations (see for example pp. 168, 174).

For the present e-version, I have corrected these errors and alterations by digitally

reworking the graphic appearance of scans of the printed edition, without changing

the latters general aspect (except for pp. 168169, 174175) nor the page numbering.

I have however been unable to reintroduce the four critical apparatus footnotes taken

away by the editor. They are marked with

in the translated passages and givenhere :

- p. 154, : min F

- p. 155, dnahu: dn F

- p. 174, wahdh yusamm iffatan +: waltafrR

- p. 175, alismliyya F: Kwere followers

(F = MF, K= MRK, R = Radd)

May I ask the indulgence of the readers for the shortcomings of the article

published in Oxford and suggest that they refer, instead, to this thoroughly revised e-

text. The latter is the only one which really represents what I had originally meant to

write.

Yahya Michot

Hartford, November 2008


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