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Islamic theology

the doctrine, developed in Ash'ari kalam, that God is the only true cause and creates each event directly, so created things have no causal power.

In Islamic theology, occasionalism refers to the doctrine, developed in Ash'ari kalam, that God is the only true cause and creates each event directly, so created things have no causal power. This meaning comes from Fakhry (1958) in Islamic occasionalism and its critique by Averroës and Aquinas.[1]

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Fakhry, M. (1958). Islamic occasionalism and its critique by Averroës and Aquinas. Allen & Unwin. Open Library record

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