Baron Carra de Vaux

البارون كارادي فو

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Baron Carra de Vaux, a French orientalist of the early twentieth century; author on Islamic philosophy of Les penseurs de l'Islam in five volumes, two books on Avicenna and al-Ghazali, and al-Muhammadiyya treating many Islamic sects. 1 2

In Ghallab's account

Ghallab cites him that the Qur'an is not a book of philosophy yet presents philosophical questions in inspired form, and that it treated the matters of divinity, oneness and power. 3

Sources

  1. Islam as Seen by the Europeans — Muhammad Ghallab , p. 45
  2. Islam as Seen by the Europeans — Muhammad Ghallab , p. 46
  3. Islam as Seen by the Europeans — Muhammad Ghallab , p. 47
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