Note 512 — Chapter VI
David Shea translation
The Keramian are followers of Muhammed Ebn Kerâm; (who died in the year of the Hejirah 255 (A. D. 868)) (Abulfeda, vol. II. p. 229), they are also called Mojassemian, or “Corporealists,” who not only admitted a resemblance between God and created beings, but declared God to be corporeal. The more sober among them, indeed, when they applied the word “body” to God, would be understood to mean that he is a self-subsisting being, which with them is the definition of a body: but yet some of them affirmed him to be finite and circumscribed, and others allowed that he might be felt by the hand or seen by the eye.