Edition |
Second edition. |
Description |
vii, 175 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 164-166. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
The Umayyad period and its prelude. The beginnings of sectarianism ; The Khārijites ; The early Shīʻtes ; The general religious movement ; God's determination of events -- The first wave of Hellenism. Politics and theology under the ʻAbbāsids ; The attraction of Greek thought ; The Muʻtazilites ; The polarization of Sunnism and Shīʻism ; Al-Ashʻarī -- The second wave of Hellenism. The flowering of philosophy ; The progress of Ashʻarite theology ; Al-Ghazālī and later Ashʻarites ; Other Sunnite theologians, 950-1250 ; Theology and philosophy in the Islamic west ; The elaboration of Shīʻte theology -- The later Islamic middle ages, 1250-1850. The stagnation of philosophical theology ; The vitality of the Ḥanbalites ; The transformation of Shīʻism -- The modern period. The theological response to the impact of the west. |
Subject |
Islam -- Doctrines -- History.
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Islamic philosophy.
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Indexed Term |
Islamic doctrine |
Subject |
Islam -- Doctrinas -- Historia.
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Teología islámica.
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ISBN |
0852244878 |
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9780852244876 |
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0748607498 |
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9780748607495 |
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