and division into parts, whether through quantitative composition, such as the composition they posit in the constitution of a body from its parts, or through the composition they posit in definitions—namely, composition from attributes, as when they say that a species is composed of genus and differentia. In their view, affirming the attributes also entails likening Allah to creation. For them, monotheism means denying such likeness and the attribution of corporeality. They say that