Why did both the Muslim Al-Ghazali and the Christian Augustine defend the ex-nihilo Creation and condemn the (neo) Aristotelian view of the eternity of the world?
Introduction The view that God created the world out of nothing (creatio ex-nihilo in latin, huduth in Islamic tradition) is famously embraced by both the Christian fourth century’s thinker Augustine and the Muslim twelfth century’s theologian Al-Ghazali. In spite of their opposition to the idea that the world is eternal, Al-Ghazali and Augustine’s idea of…