al-Abili, Abu Abd Allah · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Scholar · Philosopher
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Maghreb
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mursi · al-Irbili, Abu al-Ma'ali · Al-Adfawi, Ja'far ibn Tha'laba · Ibn Bakr, Muhammad ibn Yahya · Ibn Jabir al-Andalusi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

Philosophy and logic

Place in the story

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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

أبو عبد الله محمد بن إبراهيم الآبلي عالم مغربي من أهل المنطق والعلوم العقلية. لازمه ابن خلدون في تونس وأخذ عنه. ¹

التواريخ

وُلد سنة 681هـ (1282م) وتوفي سنة 757هـ (1356م). ¹

People and things also explored

The world's createdness or eternity· The planets' reign and the world's cycles· The transmigration of souls· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani· Al-Abhari, Athir al-Din al-Mufaddal ibn Umar· Al-Barjandi, Nizam al-Din Abd al-Ali· al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.22

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islam.museum contributors. “al-Abili, Abu Abd Allah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-abili-muhammad-ibn-ibrahim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The world's createdness or eternity

The eternity debate as al-Mas'udi stages it: Indian and Greek eternalists' great-year recurrence, the naturalists' hot-wet generation against cold-dry corruption, then his own kalam proof from the world's finite parts to a formless Maker — followed by the peoples' world-ages: the Jews' scriptural six thousand years, the Christians' agreement, and the Sabians' Greek doctrine.