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On Avicenna

Avicenna seems to converge with the negative theological understandings I have previously made central to my reading of Sura II.¹ He maps the dynamics of theological inquiry in such a way that negative theology appears as the most appropriate conclusion to be drawn from the argument. He says that "contingent beings end in a Necessary Being" and that "the Necessary Being does not resemble any other thing in any respect whatsoever." He goes on to reject the imputation of literally conceived attributes to Necessary Being—i.e., to God: "If it were to be stated that His Attributes are not an augmentation...