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Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.

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The Unification of Islamic Thought and the Flowering of Theology 1 Baghdad  1.1 Local Tradition. Madāʾin  1.2 Religious Policy Under al-Manṣūr and al-Mahdī  1.3 The Rise of the Muʿtazila  1.4 The Time Following the Fall of the Barmakids 2 Divided Empire and Civil War  2.1 The Uprising of Abū l-Sarāyā  2.2 Ma‌ʾmūn and ʿAlī al-Riḍā  2.3 Theologians with Ties to al-Ma‌ʾmūn. Thumāma b. Ashras  2.4 The Anti-Caliphate of Ibrāhīm b. al-Mahdī  2.5 Ma‌ʾmūn’s Return to Baghdad 3 Al-Ma‌ʾmūn in Baghdad. The Flowering of Muʿtazilite Theology  3.1 Ma‌ʾmūn’s Intellectual Profile. Intellectual Life at Court in Baghdad  3.2 The Great Muʿtazilite Systematists  3.3 The miḥna Supplementary Remarks

Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 3: A History of Religious Thought in Early Islam

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 01/12/2017
      ISBN13: 9789004342033, 978-9004342033
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      Book Synopsis
      Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.

      Table of Contents
      The Unification of Islamic Thought and the Flowering of Theology 1 Baghdad  1.1 Local Tradition. Madāʾin  1.2 Religious Policy Under al-Manṣūr and al-Mahdī  1.3 The Rise of the Muʿtazila  1.4 The Time Following the Fall of the Barmakids 2 Divided Empire and Civil War  2.1 The Uprising of Abū l-Sarāyā  2.2 Ma‌ʾmūn and ʿAlī al-Riḍā  2.3 Theologians with Ties to al-Ma‌ʾmūn. Thumāma b. Ashras  2.4 The Anti-Caliphate of Ibrāhīm b. al-Mahdī  2.5 Ma‌ʾmūn’s Return to Baghdad 3 Al-Ma‌ʾmūn in Baghdad. The Flowering of Muʿtazilite Theology  3.1 Ma‌ʾmūn’s Intellectual Profile. Intellectual Life at Court in Baghdad  3.2 The Great Muʿtazilite Systematists  3.3 The miḥna Supplementary Remarks

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