a fairness absent from this label.

Moreover, he explicitly stated in his most eminent work, Nihāyat al-‘Uqūl, that corporealists who affirm a direction for Allah and other such things are not people who liken Him to His creation. He also refuted those who declared them unbelievers on the grounds that they liken Him to His creation. Thus, if such likening means affirming an equal to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, they do not maintain this. If, however, it means affirming a shared attribute, then this is an unavoidable implication of everyone’s position. This is the view of his own leading authorities regarding corporealists; indeed, it is the sounder of their two views even regarding extreme corporealists.