Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Translator's Introduction---English xv Translator's Introduction---Arabic xxix Author's Introduction: [The religious preface] 1(3) [A first] introduction 4(1) [A second] introduction 5(2) [A third] introduction 7(1) [A fourth] introduction 8(2) [Author's table of contents] 10(2) [Part One] On refuting their doctrine of the world's past eternity 12(35) The [philosophers'] first [proof] 13(17) [The philosophers'] second proof... 30(9) [The philosophers'] third proof... 39(1) [The philosophers'] fourth proof 40(7) On refuting their statement on the post-eternity of the world, time, and motion 47(8) On showing their obfuscation in saying that God is the world's enactor and maker.. 55(23) Regarding the first [aspect] 56(4) The second aspect 60(4) The third aspect 64(14) On showing their inability to prove the existence of the Maker of the world 78(6) On showing their inability to prove that God is one... 84(12) [On the divine attributes] 96(14) On refuting their statement that the existence of the First cannot share with another in terms of genus... 110(6) On refuting their statement that the existence of the First is simple... 116(3) On showing their inability to sustain a proof that the First is not a body 119(4) On their inability to show that the world has a maker and a cause 123(2) On showing the impotence of those among them who perceive that the First knows other[s] and knows the genera and species in a universal way 125(6) On showing their inability to prove that He also knows Himself 131(3) On refuting their statement that God...does not know the particulars divisible in terms of temporal division into what is, what was, and what will be 134(10) On their inability to set a proof [to show] that heaven is an animal that obeys God...through its circular motion 144(5) On refuting what they mentioned concerning the purpose that moves heaven 149(4) On refuting their statement that the souls of the heavens know all the particulars that occur in this world... 153(13) [Part Two: The Natural Sciences] [Introduction] 161(5) [On causality and miracles] 166(12) On their inability to sustain a rational demonstration [proving] that the human soul is a self-subsistent spiritual substance... 178(23) The first [proof] 182(3) A second proof 185(2) A third proof 187(1) A fourth proof 188(1) A fifth proof 189(2) A sixth proof 191(2) A seventh proof 193(1) An eighth proof 194(2) A ninth proof 196(2) A tenth proof 198(3) On refuting their statement that it is impossible for human souls to undergo annihilation... 201(7) On refuting their denial of bodily resurrection... 208(21) The Book's Conclusion 226(3) Notes to the English Text 229(16) Notes to the Arabic Text 245(4) Index 249