is an eternal, simple, uncompounded substance, not a body, and not subject to motion, rest, combination, or separation. He called Him “intellect” at one point and “nature” at another. Elsewhere in that work, he said that He apprehends His own essence and knows His own essence and all other things of which He is the cause.

Porphyry stated in his treatise, in which he claimed to recount Aristotle’s views concerning the Creator and the principles, that Aristotle describes Allah, exalted is He, as good, wise, and powerful. It was also claimed by