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**Faungarne** · 08-29-2011, 04:51 AM

Salam. There are no 'anthropomorphic' phrases in the qur'an / hadith. There are some sects who are anthropomorphists due to their faulty understanding of qur'an / hadith.

JazakAllahu khair for pointing that out brother--I should have phrased that better. I should say, any good resources on different approaches to those phrases with which some sects have wrongly understood to support anthropomorphic understandings of Allah (SWT)? Alhamdulillah, i understand tafwid and ta'wil are the only acceptable approaches, but arguing that wouldn't really be the goal of my paper ( at least I don't think so now); I simply want to present the development of those three most popular approaches (tafwid, ta'wil, literalist understanding)--but I'm not sure there are any comprehensive English resources on this?

08-29-2011, 04:51 AM	#3
Faungarne Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	Salam. There are no 'anthropomorphic' phrases in the qur'an / hadith. There are some sects who are anthropomorphists due to their faulty understanding of qur'an / hadith. JazakAllahu khair for pointing that out brother--I should have phrased that better. I should say, any good resources on different approaches to those phrases with which some sects have wrongly understood to support anthropomorphic understandings of Allah (SWT)? Alhamdulillah, i understand tafwid and ta'wil are the only acceptable approaches, but arguing that wouldn't really be the goal of my paper ( at least I don't think so now); I simply want to present the development of those three most popular approaches (tafwid, ta'wil, literalist understanding)--but I'm not sure there are any comprehensive English resources on this?
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