# SEP’s Ibn Sina and Ghazali entries print the later Avicennism-versus-kalam polarisation

Date: 2016

## The fact

The Stanford Encyclopedia’s Ibn Sina entry (first published 15 September 2016) and its Ghazali entry jointly print the long school fight in which Avicennian necessary-existent metaphysics became a party badge against Ash‘ari kalam. The dated public English cluster is those encyclopedia articles, not a 1037 street fight. Polarisation here is confessional-intellectual, not a parliament score.

## Context

A metaphysical dispute is not a civil war. It is a durable caption that later states and seminaries still use to sort ‘reason’ from ‘law’. Split the improving metaphysics-access row.

[Avicenna](/people/avicenna) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Printed school-warfare around Avicennism is a cohesion cost for later classrooms that treat the name as a camp.

Printed school-warfare around Avicennism is a cohesion cost for later classrooms that treat the name as a camp.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-ghazali/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-ghazali-incoherence-sep