Bahá'u'lláh and the God of Avicenna
Channel: Association for Bahá’í Studies
Date: 2022-09-21

Joshua Hall - 2022 ABS Conference

This talk would present the content and context of my paper, “Bahá’u’lláh and the God of Avicenna,” published in vol. 31 no. 3 of The Journal of Bahá’í Studies. The paper argues that Bahá’u’lláh affirms the metaphysical principles underlying an argument for the existence of God developed by Avicenna (980-1037), the preeminent philosopher of Islam, and suggests that Avicennian metaphysics illuminates the philosophic content, and logical rigor, of Bahá’í theology.