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Author De Cillis, Maria

Title Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought : Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (594 pages)
Series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Culture and civilisation in the Middle East.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Objectives and methodology of this volume; Historical and cultural context: The status of Kalām, Falsafa and Tasawwūf; A brief sketch of the free will and predestination issue: The Mu'tazilites; Mu'tazilite occasionalism; A brief sketch of the free will and predestination issue: The Ash'arites; Ash'arite occasionalism; Notes; 1. Avicenna: Part one; Avicenna: a biography; Aristotelian and Fārābīan influences; Essence, existence, matter, form and substance: A definitional survey
Emanation and divine willingness: Attempts at compromise between Aristotelian necessity and Ash'artite contingencyDeterminism vs predestination; Matter's revised passivity in relation to determinism; Potentiality and privation between determinism and predestination; Matter and evil; Matter's 'disobedience' and its compliance to the divine decree; Notes; 2. Avicenna: Part two; Divine and celestial knowledge in relation to determinism; The naturalization of rewards and punishments; Human soul and freedom; Rejection of fatalism; Love and determinism
Angelology, mystical individuation and inner freedomNotes; 3. Al-Ghazālī: Part one; A biography; Mishkāt al-Anwār: General considerations; Section 1: Evidences for al-Ghazālī's gnoseological emanation; Gnosticism and Ash'arite occasionalism; Section 2: The Veils hadīth; The group of the Attainers; Ihyyā' 'ulūm al-dīn: General considerations; The Ash'arite al-Ghazālī on divine justice; Al-Ghazālī's revised Ash'arism: Divine created acts and human acquisition; Modes of actions: Man as the 'compelled chooser'; The nature of evil; Nature and fear; 'Naturality' of human actions
Repentance and hopeTrust in God: Responsibility and the role of the divine law; Mulk, Malakūt and Jabarūt; Notes; 4. Al-Ghazālī: Part two; Al-Maqsad al-asnā fī sharh ma'anī asmā' Allāh al-husnā; Divine predestination for happiness and misery; al-Iqtisād fī'l-i'tiqād and the Tahāfut al-falāsifa; Logical Necessity inscribed in God's Custom; Natural agency in God's accommodating Sunna; Notes; 5. Ibn 'Arabī: Part one; A biography; Nature of the Akbarian writings; Attributes, divine Names and immutable entities; From the one to the many: Hints of Avicennian determinism; Divine 'creation'
Divine knowledgeCausality in relation to good and evil; Divine will; Notes; 6. Ibn 'Arabī: Part two; The a'yān thābita and the realm of responsibility in the divine qadā'; The perfect man; The concepts of servanthood ('ubūdiyya) and servitude ('ubūda); Freedom (hurriyya); Divine unity and the disposition of things; 'Naturalistic' predestination; Attribution of acts; Muhammad and the Haqīqa Muhammadiyya: Compendium of divine decree and destiny; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The subject of ""human free-will"" versus ""divine predestination"" is one of the most contentious topics in classical Islamic thought. By focusing on a theme of central importance to any philosophy of religion, and to Islam in particular, this book offers a critical study of the intellectual contributions offered to this discourse by three key medieval Islamic thinkers: Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn?Arabi. Through investigation of primary sources, Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought establishes the historical, political and intellectual circumstances
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Subject Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Islam -- Doctrines -- History
Islamic philosophy -- History
Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Islam -- Doctrines
Islamic philosophy
Predestinationsläran.
Islam.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317937043
131793704X