1. See Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr (Beirut: Dār al-Ma’rifah, 2006), 521.
2. See Ibrahim Kalin, “Knowing the Self and the Non-Self: Towards a Philosophy of Non-Subjectivism,” Journal of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society’ 43 (2008), 93–106.
3. Jan Assmann, “The Mosaic Distinction: Israel, Egypt, and the Invention of Paganism,” Representations 56 (1996), 48.
4. In one of the earliest instances of the use of the word deism, we find John Dryden defining it as “the opinion of those that acknowledge one God, without the reception of any revealed religion” in John Dryden, Preface Religio Laici, by John Dryden (1682), in “Deism,” in Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed. 4, 2251.