Quran verse 2:31 “He taught Adam all the names” is central to the Islamic discussion on the nature of language. The majority of theologians among the Muʿtazila, early Ashʿarī, and Māturīdī schools understood... 1/
Some nice sources on this are:
—Fakhr al-dīn al-Rāzī in his al-Tafsīr al-kabīr on Q.2:31.
—Bernard Weiss, The search for God’s law: Islamic jurisprudence in the writings 4/
—Mustafa Shah, “Classical Islamic Discourse on the Origins of Language: Cultural Memory and the Defense of Orthodoxy”, Numen 58, no. 2 (2011): 314–343.
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