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Book SynopsisPhilosophical Theology in Islam studies the later history of the Ashʿarī school of theology through in-depth probings of its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts. Starting with a review of al-Ghazālī’s role in the emergence of post-Avicennan philosophical theology, the book offers a series of case studies on hitherto unstudied texts by the towering thinker Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī as well as specific philosophical and theological topics treated in his works. Studies furthermore shed light on the transmission and reception of later Ashʿarī doctrines in periods and regions that have so far received little scholarly attention. This book is the first exploration of the later Ashʿarī tradition across the medieval and early-modern period through a trans-regional perspective. Contributors: Peter Adamson, Asad Q. Ahmed, Fedor Benevich, Xavier Casassas Canals, Jon Hoover, Bilal Ibrahim, Andreas Lammer, Reza Pourjavady, Harith Ramli, Ulrich Rudolph, Meryem Sebti, Delfina Serrano-Ruano, Ayman Shihadeh, Aaron Spevack, and Jan Thiele.
Trade Review“Philosophical Theology in Islam, edited by Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele, is a thirteen-chapter work of robust scholarship into postclassical Ashʿarī theology that boasts papers covering the four corners of the Muslim world. […]Clearly, this volume will be a key resource for those interested in the complex theological legacy bestowed by al-Rāzī to later generations of thinkers and developments in post-classical Ashʿarī kalām right across the Muslim world.” Kayhan Ali Özaykal, in Ilahiyat Studies A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies (2021)
Table of ContentsContributors Introduction Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele Post-Ghazālian Theology What were the Lessons to be Learned from al-Ghazālī? Ulrich Rudolph Al-Rāzī’s Earliest Kalām Work Eastern Ashʿarism in the Twelfth Century Ayman Shihadeh Le commentaire à la sūrate al-Aʿlā attribué à Avicenne Une épître de Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī Meryem Sebti Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Platonist Account of the Essence of Time Peter Adamson and Andreas Lammer The Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd) From Avicenna to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī Fedor Benevich Causing an Essence Notes on the Concept of Jaʿl al-Māhiyya, from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī to Mullā Ṣadrā Bilal Ibrahim Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes Jon Hoover Continuing Conversations Late Sunni Kalām-Theology’s Ongoing Engagement with Philosophy Aaron Spevack Putting Criticisms against al-Ghazālī in Perspective New Materials on the Interface between Law, Rational Theology and Mysticism in Almoravid and Almohad al-Andalus (Ibn Rushd al-Jadd and al-Qurṭubī) Xavier Casassas Canals and Delfina Serrano-Ruano Ashʿarism in the Ḥafṣid Era Jan Thiele The Legacy of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī His Works and His Students Reza Pourjavady Ashʿarism through an Akbarī Lens The Two “Taḥqīqs” in the Curriculum Vitae of Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1019/1690) Harith Ramli The Mawāqif of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī in India Asad Q. Ahmed Index
