the Creator is neither a body, nor bounded, nor finite. We shall now recount the views of those who affirm corporealism and their disagreements concerning it.” He said: “They differed among themselves concerning corporealism, whether the Creator has any magnitude, and what His magnitude is, holding sixteen positions.”

He then mentioned Hishām’s view that He is a body, that He has a magnitude, and that He possesses color, taste, smell, and tactile quality: His color is His taste, His smell, and His tactile quality, and He Himself is color. He said that he did not posit a color distinct from Him, and that He moves—moves and remains still, stands and sits.

This, it may be said, accords with the view of those among the affirmers of the divine attributes who hold that