Discover the meaning of the term Al-ʿnadya (عنادية) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readThey are those who deny the realities of things, claiming them to be illusions and vain fancies, like figures inscribed upon water.
It is the proposition in which the judgment is of incompatibility in the essences of its two parts, with abstraction made from reality, as between the unit and the pair, stone and tree, or Zayd being in the sea and not drowning.
They are those who deny the realities of things, claiming them to be illusions or vain fancies, like figures inscribed upon water; and, among the logicians: the proposition whose judgment is of incompatibility in the essences of its two parts, with abstraction made from reality, as between the unit and the pair, tree and stone, and between Zayd being in the sea and not drowning.
That in which incompatibility is judged between its two parts by the essences of the two parts.
The proposition in which the judgment is of incompatibility in the essences of the two parts, with abstraction made from reality, as between the unit and the pair, tree and stone, or Zayd being in the sea and not drowning.