Atomism holds that the exhaustive division of bodies results in indivisible parts. Two kinds of atomism are found in Islamic thought, that of the mutakallimūn and that of the philosopher-physician Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī (d. 313/925 or 323/935). Pre-Islamic systems of atomism include the Greek and the Indian. Greek atomism was formulated by Democritus and Leucippus, refuted by Aristotle, then reformulated by Epicurus. Besides finite division of bodies, Greek atomist cosmology held theories of motion and of the vacuum, and implied theories of
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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