Philosophical Letters

This book includes the most important works of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, the philosopher and physician whose philosophical views left a profound impact on his society and the intellectual schools of his time. He has many works, some say they amount to 232 books and letters, most of which are on medicine, of which Al-Hawi is considered the most important, as he combined Greek medicine with the medicine of others, Arab medicine, and al-Razi’s own medicine. Al-Razi researched the antiquity of the universal soul and its longing for matter, its descent into it, and its clinging to it. He claimed that this belief provides conclusive philosophical proof of the origin of the world. Abu Hatim al-Razi tried to address some of what Abu Bakr al-Razi had said when they met in a council in Rayy during the days of Mardawj. Abu Hatim debated him on the issue of prophecy and imamate.