These texts and others like them explicitly state that He created Adam from dust and clay. It is well known that the body is what was created from these materials. How, then, can anyone claim that His statement that He created Adam refers only to the spirit?

The eleventh point: Abū Hāmid claims in various places that the term “creation,” with respect to the spirit, concerns only the question of determining and measuring. In their view, this is the world of bodies, which he calls the world of dominion. As for the separate or governing spirits, which he calls the world of sovereign might