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1 online resource (xii, 270 pages). |
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Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 73 |
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Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 73.
0169-8729
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover13; -- Contents13; -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Worship, Religious Epistemology and Theological Jurisprudence -- Ibn Taymiyya as a Theological Jurist -- The Centrality of Worshipping God Alone -- The Correspondence of Reason and Revelation -- On Knowing that God Exists and that He Alone should be Worshipped -- The Methodology of Theological Jurisprudence -- The Apologetic Quality of Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Jurisprudence -- Chapter Two: God's Wise Purpose, Perpetual Activity and Self-Suffi ciency -- The Problematic of God's Goodness and God's Self-Suffi ciency -- Joseph Bell on God's Wise Purpose and Self-Suffi ciency in Ibn Taymiyya's Theology -- Ibn Taymiyya's Classification of Views on Wise Purpose/ Causality in the Will of God -- The Ash'ar239; Case against Causality in the Will of God: It Entails Imperfection and Origination in God, as well as an Infi nite Regress -- Ibn Taymiyya's Case for a God Who Acts Perpetually for Wise Purposes and Creates from Eternity -- Ibn Taymiyya on God's Voluntary Acts Subsisting in God's Essence -- Ibn Taymiyya on God's Suffi ciency apart from the Worlds in the Exercise of Wise Purpose -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: God's Creation and God's Command -- Ibn Taymiyya's Creation/Command Hermeneutic -- Ibn Taymiyya's Classifi cation of Errors in Creation and Command -- Ibn Taymiyya: Analogy Is the Cause of Error in Creation and Command -- Modes of Expressing Creation and Command in Ibn Taymiyya's Thought -- Ibn Taymiyya Defending the Coherence of Creation and Command -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: God's Creation of Acts in the Human Agent -- Ibn Taymiyya's View of the Human Act in Prior Research -- The Theological and Philosophical Context -- Ibn Taymiyya on the Compatibility of Divine Creation and Human Action -- Ibn Taymiyya's View of Divine Creation by Means of Secondary Causes -- Ibn Taymiyya on Controversial Kal228;m Terms Relating to Human Agency -- Ibn Taymiyya's Compatibilism as the Golden Mean (wasat) -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: The Wise Purpose and Origin of Evil -- Ibn Taymiyya and the Explanation of Evil in Islamic Theodicies -- Ibn Taymiyya's Evil Attribution Typology -- Ibn Taymiyya on God's Wise Purposes in the Creation of Evil -- Ibn Taymiyya's Location of the Origin of Evil in Nonexistence ('adam) -- Conclusion (Chapter Six: The Justice of God and the Best of All Possible) -- Worlds -- Introduction -- Ibn Taymiyya's Three-fold Typology on God's Justice ('adl) -- Ibn Taymiyya on God's Power and al-Ghaz228;l239;'s Best of All Possible Worlds -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ibn Taymiyya's Writings -- Collected Works with Abbreviations -- Ibn Taymiyya's Treatises with Short Titles -- Works of Others Found in the Collected Works of Ibn Taymiyya -- Other Arabic and Western Language Sources -- Index. |
| Summary |
This comprehensive study of Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) theodicy of perpetual optimism exposits and analyses his writings on God's justice and wise purpose, divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic method in theological doctrine. |
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| Subject |
Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.
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Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328. (OCoLC)fst00039053
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Ibn-Taimīya, Aḥmad Ibn-ʻAbd-al-Ḥalīm 1263-1328.
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Ibn-Taimīya, Aḥmad Ibn-ʻAbd-al-Ḥalīm.
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God (Islam) -- History of doctrines.
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Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Islam -- Doctrines.
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Optimism.
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Theodicy.
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Theodicee.
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God (Islam) -- History of doctrines.
(OCoLC)fst00944145
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Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
(OCoLC)fst00944903
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Islam -- Doctrines.
(OCoLC)fst00979787
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Optimism. (OCoLC)fst01046876
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Theodicy. (OCoLC)fst01149507
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Theodicee.
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Theodizee.
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RELIGION / Islam / General.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hoover, Jon. Ibn Taymiyya's theodicy of perpetual optimism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 (OCoLC)137334645 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004158474.i-270 doi |
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9789047420194 (electronic bk.) |
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9047420195 (electronic bk.) |
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9004158472 (hd. bd.) |
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9789004158474 (hd. bd.) |
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