 Generally speaking, Islamic theologians in the Classical period saw the created world as comprised of atoms and their accidents (Dhanani 1994; Frank 1999). They held that God produced this world at an initial moment, and that He reproduces it at every subsequent moment in which it exists. They also identified God as the immediate cause of every change in the created world. For example, according to their view, God created the atoms that comprise my skin, and the accidents of paleness that belongs to those atoms, at the initial moment of their existence, and he recreates them at all subsequent moments in which they exist. If my skin retains its paleness over a period of time, this is due to God’s continuous recreation of its paleness. Likewise, if my skin reddens when exposed to sunlight, this is due to God’s ceasing to recreate its paleness, and creating in it redness instead. (This would involve His creating a series of accidents of deepening shades of red.)