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1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy Series |
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Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Allah of the Philosophers -- 1 Dancing with the Devil or Chanting with Angels?: al-Rāzī's Employment of Philosophical Arguments in Discussion of Divine Attributes -- 2 The Ineffable and the Process of its Determination: Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī's Considerations on the Origin -- 3 Divine Love in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Some Stages in the History of an Attribute |
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4 Divine Simplicity, the Deus Revelatus, and the Divine Names in the Philosophical Theology of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (1571-1636) -- Part II Allah of the Theologians -- 5 Abū al-Hudhayl al-'Allāf on Divine Simplicity -- 6 Does the Attribute "Baqāʼ" Exist?: Sunni Theologians on God's Persistence -- 7 Nūr al-Dīn al-Ṣābūnī and the Divine Attributes: Māturīdī Kalām in a Nutshell -- 8 Is There an Elephant in Our Presence That We Cannot See?: A Deep Dive into Bahshamiyya Attributes Discourses -- 9 The Omnipotence (al-qudra) and the Will of God (al-irāda) in the Theology of Sayf ad-Dīn al-Āmidī |
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10 Constructing the True Islam: The Wahhābī Scholar Ibn ʿUthaymīn (d. 2001) on the Divine Attributes and the Path of the Pious Ancestors (Salaf ) -- 11 Divine Will and Anthropopathism in Muʿtazilī Theology: Abū ʿAlī and Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʼī -- 12 God as a Paradigm of the World: Ismāʿīl Gelenbevī on Divine Knowledge -- Index |
| Summary |
The debate over Allah's attribute--the ""nature"" and the inner articulation of Allah--is one of the focal debates in the intellectual history of Islam. This edited collection aims to highlight and examine some aspects of this debate in their original context, based on the relevant primary literature |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003852766 |
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1003852769 |
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