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Islamic theological themes : a primary source reader /

"Comprised of primary sources assembled from a broad chronological and geographic spectrum, Islamic Theological Themes is a comprehensive anthology of primary Islamic sacred texts in translation. The volume includes rare and never before translated selections, all freshly situated and introduce...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Renard, John, 1944- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. The Science of Interpretation: Reading The Sacred Sources
  • 1. Qurʼān and Hadith
  • Theological Themes in the Qurʼān
  • Transcendence: Divine Throne and Footstool
  • Immanence: The Verse of Light and God's Anthropomorphic Features
  • Revelation in Creation and through Prophets
  • Divine Freedom and Human Responsibility
  • Theological Themes in the Hadith
  • Exegetical Hadiths
  • Hermeneutical Hints in the Hadith
  • 2. Interpreting the Sacred Sources
  • Varieties of Exegesis (Tafsīr) on the Throne Verse
  • Interpreting the Verse of Light
  • Avicenna on Metaphorical Meanings of the Verse of Light
  • Ghazālī on the Similitudes in the Verse of Light
  • Ṭabrisī on the Verse of Light
  • Abū 'l-ʻAlā al-Mawdūdī on the Verse of Light
  • Theological Principles in Hermeneutics
  • Ibn al-Jawzī on Exegetical Method
  • Suyuṭī on the Occasions of Revelation
  • ʻAbd al-Jabbār on Rational Interpretation of Scripture
  • Shāh Walī Allāh on the Causes of Abrogation
  • Ayatollah Khuʼī on the Divine Miracle of the Qurʼān
  • Part Two. The Science of Community: Mapping The Boundaries of True Belief
  • 3. Muslim Awareness of Other Religious Communities
  • Identifying and Evaluating the Beliefs of Others
  • ʻAlī ibn Rabbān aṭ-Ṭabarī on Interpreting the Stories of Other Faiths
  • Shahrastānī's Heresiography on Non-Muslim Communities
  • Ibn al-Jawzī on the Devil's Deception of Jews and Christians
  • Ibn Taymīya on Christian Alteration of Scripture
  • 4. Creed and Polemic
  • Creeds
  • Ḥanbalī Traditionalist Creed
  • Ghazālī's Ashʻarī Creed
  • Nasafī's Māturīdī Creed
  • Ḥillī's Twelver Shīʻī/Muʻtazilī Creed
  • Sayyid Aḥmad Khān's Modern Sunnī Creed
  • Intra-Muslim Polemics in Practice
  • ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib on Heresy
  • Ibāḍī Views on Associating with Muslims of Deficient Faith.
  • Part Three. The Science of Divine Unity: Schools and Themes in Systematic Theology
  • 5. Theological Schools and Principles
  • Divergent Schools of Thought
  • Shahrastānī's Doxography of Muslim Schools
  • Sālim ibn Dhakwān on the Murjiʼa
  • Methodological Overviews
  • Al-Ashʻarī's Vindication of Kalām
  • ʻAbd al-Jabbār's Muʻtazilī Five Principles
  • Theology's Foundation: Prophetic Revelation
  • Avicenna on Assessing Claims to Prophetic Revelation
  • Bāqillānī on Prophetic Miracle and Veracity
  • Ṭūsī's Ismāʻīlī Views on Postprophetic Authority
  • 6. Major Themes in Systematic Theology
  • God Creating: Transcendent Unity, Ongoing Involvement with Creation
  • Ibn al-ʻArabī on Divine Majesty and Beauty
  • Ibn Taymīya on God's Perpetual Creativity
  • Javanese Admonitions of Seh Bari on God's Perpetual Creativity
  • God Revealing
  • Ibn Qudāma on the Divine Voice
  • Jāmī on God's Voice
  • Mullā Ṣadrā on Divine Speech and Attributes
  • Experiencing God Hereafter
  • Bāqillānī on the Vision of God in the Next Life
  • ʻAlī on the Vision of God
  • ʻAbd al-Jabbār on God and Humanity in the Hereafter
  • Theological Bookends: Cosmogony and Eschatology
  • Wang Daiyu on Translating Tawḥīd into Chinese Traditional Terms
  • Nuʻmānī on the Greater Occultation of the Twelfth Imam
  • Part Four. The Science of Hearts: Spirituality and Literature
  • 7. Knowledge and the Spiritual Quest
  • Ways of Knowing: Acquired and Experiential
  • ʻAlī on Knowledge and the Spiritual Life
  • Hujwīrī on Experiential Knowledge
  • Theological Dimensions of the Spiritual Quest
  • Ibn al-ʻArabī on What Is Indispensable for the Spiritual Seeker
  • Naṣīr ad-Dīn Ṭūsī on the Spiritual Quest
  • Kemas Fakhr ad-Dīn on the Quest for Self and God's Oneness
  • 8. Poetic, Pastoral, and Narrative Theology
  • Poetic Theology and Theological Poetry.
  • Sanāʼī on God's Attributes, Unity, and Anthropomorphisms
  • ʻAṭṭār on the Valley of Experiential Knowledge
  • Muḥammad Iqbal on "Secrets of the Self"
  • Pastoral Theology: Talking and Teaching about God
  • Rūmī on the Many Languages of God Talk
  • Ibn ʻAbbād on Relating to God's Attributes and Names
  • Narrative Approaches to Major Theological Themes
  • Ibn Ṭufayl on Acquiring Knowledge of Divine Names and Attributes
  • Najm ad-Dīn Dāya Rāzī on Muḥammad's Spiritual Finality
  • A Shīʻī Narrative on the Spiritual Status of Fāṭima az-Zahrāʼ
  • Part Five: The Science of Character and Comportment: Ethics and Governance
  • 9. Ethics in Theory
  • Divine Omnipotence, Human Freedom
  • Ḥasan al-Baṣrī on Moral Responsibility
  • Shaykh al-Mufīd on Divine Predetermination and the Battle of Ṣiffīn
  • Theories of Moral Capacity and Responsibility
  • Bāqillānī's Ashʻarī Perspective on Human Acquisition of Divinely Created Acts
  • Bazdawī's Māturīdī Perspective on Moral Capacity
  • Brethren of Purity on Divine Initiative, Human Responsibility, and Law
  • ʻAbd al-Jabbār's Muʻtazilī View of Ethical Principles and Theodicy
  • Classical and Modern Views of the Devil, Destiny, and Fate
  • Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīya on God's Wisdom in Creating Iblīs
  • ʻAbduh and Afghānī on Destiny and Fate
  • 10. Ethics in Practice
  • The Foundation of Ethics in Practice
  • Juwaynī on Commanding the Good and Forbidding the Reprehensible
  • Theologies of History: Contending Narratives of Early Muslim Governance
  • Nawbakhtī on Divergent Views of the Imamate
  • Bāqillānī on Rightly Guided Caliphs and the Imamate
  • Theologies of Governance: Holding Up a Mirror to Kings and Sultans
  • Ghazālī on the Larger Context of Islamic Governance
  • Muḥammad Bāqir Najm-i Thānī on Justice and Discipline
  • Social and Personal Ethical Guidance
  • Ibn Ḥazm on Anxiety, Self-Knowledge, and Virtue.
  • Ghazālī on Contentment with Divine Destiny
  • Shāh Walī Allāh on the Ranks of Sin
  • Mullā Ṣadrā on Forgiveness
  • Notes
  • Appendix: Synoptic/Comparative Table of Texts
  • Acknowledgements of Permissions and Credits
  • Index of Names of Persons
  • General Index
  • Index of Qurʼanic Citations.