27a |
For
the idea expressed in this paragraph, cf.
Rasa'il Ikhwan as-safa', IV, 313 ff., a
passage which at one time provoked an overenthusiastic
comparison with Darwinism. Cf. F. Dieterici, Der
Darwinismus im X. and XIX. Jahrhundert (Die Philosophie der
Araber, No. 9) (Leipzig, 1878), pp. 29 ff., 220 ff. Cf.
also H. S. Nyberg, Kleinere Schriften des Ibn al-'Arabi (Leiden,
1919), p. 93 f. (Ar. text). |