Once in a Thousand Years (Paperback)
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Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. He wrote thirty-nine books. Every single one is gone.What remains is something harder to destroy than a book: a set of ideas so sharp, so honest, so relentlessly committed to following the argument wherever it leads, that twelve centuries of silence have not managed to extinguish them.Ibrahim ibn Sayyar al-Nazzam lived in ninth-century Baghdad at the absolute height of the Islamic Golden Age. He was the most brilliant student of the Mu'tazilite school - and then, inevitably, its most dangerous heretic. His greatest student, the writer al-Jahiz, called him simply: a man who appears once in a thousand years.ONCE IN A THOUSAND YEARS tells the full story of this lost genius: where he came from, what he thought, why it threatened everyone, and what it means that his ideas refused to stay buried.What al-Nazzam argued - at a time when such arguments could end careers, erase legacies, and cost everything: That matter is not made of atoms but is continuous and infinitely divisible - anticipating debates that would not recur in Western science for another eight centuriesThat motion is not smooth but discontinuous - that objects leap through space in jumps, skipping intermediate points - a theory of startling originalityThat God cannot do evil - not would not, but could not - because evil is a real category and the divine is genuinely bound by moral truthThat consensus is not evidence of truth - that a thousand scholars agreeing does not make a thing rightThat the hadith traditions deserved the same rational scrutiny as any other human testimonyThat the Quran's miracle lay not in its style but in its knowledge - in what it knew that no human being of its time could have knownEach of these positions made enemies. Together, they made al-Nazzam the most attacked, most refuted, and most carefully erased thinker of the early Islamic world - which is another way of saying: the one who had gotten closest to something his age was not ready to accept.His books were allowed to die. His school was absorbed and dissolved. His name became a warning in the encyclopedias of later scholarship: this is what happens when reason goes too far.But the questions he asked never closed. They are open now. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …
N° de ref. del artículo 9798195579524
- Título
- Once in a Thousand Years (Paperback)
- Autor
- Narin Hikma
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798195579524
He wrote thirty-nine books. Every single one is gone.
What remains is something harder to destroy than a book: a set of ideas so sharp, so honest, so relentlessly committed to following the argument wherever it leads, that twelve centuries of silence have not managed to extinguish them.
Ibrahim ibn Sayyar al-Nazzam lived in ninth-century Baghdad at the absolute height of the Islamic Golden Age. He was the most brilliant student of the Mu'tazilite school — and then, inevitably, its most dangerous heretic. His greatest student, the writer al-Jahiz, called him simply: a man who appears once in a thousand years.
ONCE IN A THOUSAND YEARS tells the full story of this lost genius: where he came from, what he thought, why it threatened everyone, and what it means that his ideas refused to stay buried.
What al-Nazzam argued — at a time when such arguments could end careers, erase legacies, and cost everything:
- That matter is not made of atoms but is continuous and infinitely divisible — anticipating debates that would not recur in Western science for another eight centuries
- That motion is not smooth but discontinuous — that objects leap through space in jumps, skipping intermediate points — a theory of startling originality
- That God cannot do evil — not would not, but could not — because evil is a real category and the divine is genuinely bound by moral truth
- That consensus is not evidence of truth — that a thousand scholars agreeing does not make a thing right
- That the hadith traditions deserved the same rational scrutiny as any other human testimony
- That the Quran's miracle lay not in its style but in its knowledge — in what it knew that no human being of its time could have known
Each of these positions made enemies. Together, they made al-Nazzam the most attacked, most refuted, and most carefully erased thinker of the early Islamic world — which is another way of saying: the one who had gotten closest to something his age was not ready to accept.
His books were allowed to die. His school was absorbed and dissolved. His name became a warning in the encyclopedias of later scholarship: this is what happens when reason goes too far.
But the questions he asked never closed. They are open now.
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