Frasi di Al-Ma'arri

Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān al-Tanūkhī al-Maʿarrī Arabo أبو العلاء أحمد بن عبد الله بن سليمان التنوخي المعري è stato un poeta e letterato arabo.

Erudito, filologo e retore, compose opere in prosa e in versi. Conosciuto come il "Lucrezio d'oriente", fu un razionalista controverso, lasciando intendere di considerare le religioni positive in generale nulla più di una superstizione.

✵ 973 – 1057
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Al-Ma'arri Frasi e Citazioni

Al-Ma'arri: Frasi in inglese

“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains.”

As quoted in The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (1984) by Amin Maalouf, p. 37
Variant translations:
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern (1906) by John Mackinnon Robertson, Vol. I, Ch. VIII: Freethought under Islam, p. 269
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
This form of the statement has been most commonly misatributted — to Avicenna, in A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science (1950) by Joseph McCabe, p. 43, and later to Averroes, in The Atheist World‎ (1991) by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, p. 46.
Originale: اِثْنَانِ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ ذُو عَقْلٍ بِلَا دِينٍ وَآخَرُ دَيِّنٌ لَا عَقْلَ لَهُ

“A little doubt is better than total credulity.”

As quoted in Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out (2003) by Ibn Warraq, p. 68

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