This text examines the criticism of Ibn Sina’s doctrine of necessity as it is held that Ibn Sina’s view allows for no freedom: no freedom for God, for man, or in nature, while the text will rebuke that and will affirm that his position is a version of soft determinism or compatibilism.

Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen The Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute Qom, Iran Spring 1430/1388/2009