Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ashʿarism East and WestPhilosophical Theology in Islam studies the later history of the Ashʿarī school of theology through in-depth probings of its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts. Starting with a review of al-Ghazālī’s role in the emergence of post-Avicennan philosophical theology, the book offers a series of case studies on hitherto unstudied texts by the towering thinker Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī as well as specific philosophical and theological topics treated in his works. Studies furthermore shed light on the transmission and reception of later Ashʿarī doctrines in periods and regions that have so far received little scholarly attention. This book is the first exploration of the later Ashʿarī tradition across the medieval and early-modern period through a trans-regional perspective. Contributors: Peter Adamson, Asad Q. Ahmed, Fedor Benevich, Xavier Casassas Canals, Jon Hoover, Bilal Ibrahim, Andreas Lammer, Reza Pourjavady, Harith Ramli, Ulrich Rudolph, Meryem Sebti, Delfina Serrano-Ruano, Ayman Shihadeh, Aaron Spevack, and Jan Thiele. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PostGhazālian Theology What were the Lessons to be Learned from alGhazālī? | 12 |
AlRāzīs Earliest Kalām Work Eastern Ashʿarism in the Twelfth Century | 36 |
Le commentaire à la sūrate alAʿlā attribué à AvicenneUne épître de Fakhr alDīn alRāzī | 71 |
Fakhr alDīn alRāzīs Platonist Account of the Essence of Time | 95 |
The Necessary Existent wājib alwujūd From Avicenna to Fakhr alDīn alRāzī | 123 |
Causing an Essence Notes on the Concept of Jaʿl alMāhiyya from Fakhr alDīn alRāzīto Mullā Ṣadrā | 156 |
Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation ta ʾwīl of Gods Attributes | 195 |
Continuing Conversations Late Sunni KalāmTheologys Ongoing Engagement with Philosophy | 231 |
Putting Criticisms against alGhazālī in Perspective New Materials on the Interface between Law Rational Theology and Mysticism in Almoravid and ... | 254 |
Ashʿarism in the Ḥafṣid Era | 298 |
The Legacy of ʿAḍud alDīn alĪjī His Works and His Students | 337 |
Ashʿarism through an Akbarī Lens The Two Taḥqīqs in the Curriculum Vitae of Ibrāhīm alKūrānī d 10191690 | 371 |
The Mawāqif of ʿAḍud alDīn alĪjī in India | 397 |
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