Asas al-Taqdis

The first part of the book opens with a categorical rejection of any corporeality regarding God, under the title of "Indications on God's Transcendence beyond Corporeality and on Him not Being Confined [by any spatial location]". That is, in fact, his definition of anthropomorphism: al-Razi maintains that the one God is not present in a direction; He is not a space-occupying entity and is not a body, an assertion for which he provides proofs based on rational and textual evidence. Al-Razi raises numerous claims, which he then refutes. The claims he contradicts are namely those held by the corporealist Karramites and the ultra-traditionalists who affirmed God's direction (jiha) and its veridical meaning (as haqiqa: truth, reality). In his discussion al-Razi articulates the Ash'ari stance on this matter and explains the proper figurative interpretation (ta'wil), according to his opinion. == Criticism ==

Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) and his student Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751/1350) criticized and attacked the book. Ibn Taymiyya wrote a critical response to the book, entitled ''al-Ta'sis fi Radd Asas al-Taqdis (), better known as Bayan Talbis al-Jahmiyya'' (), defended the position that God is spatially extended and a body with parts (note that he refuses the word part or limbs and calls them Sifat al-A'yan, A'yan means entities, as opposed to Sifat Ma'na which subsist in the Essence and not entities on their own). == See also ==