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Philosophical Theology in Islam
Later Ashʿarism East and West
Series: - Islamicate Intellectual History, Volume: 5
Philosophical Theology in Islam studies the later history of the AshÊ¿arÄ« school of theology through in-depth probings of its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts. Starting with a review of al-GhazÄlÄ«âs 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-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ« as well as specific philosophical and theological topics treated in his works. Studies furthermore shed light on the transmission and reception of later AshÊ¿arÄ« doctrines in periods and regions that have so far received little scholarly attention. This book is the first exploration of the later AshÊ¿arÄ« 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.
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.
Ayman Shihadeh, DPhil, is an intellectual historian of the pre-modern Islamic world. His publications include The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ« (Brill, 2006) and Doubts on Avicenna (Brill, 2015). He is Editor-in-Chief of BSOAS and Section Editor for Philosophy and Theology on the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Jan Thiele, Ph.D. (2012), is a scholar in Islamic intellectual history based at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. He has published monographs and articles on medieval rational theology, including Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya (Brill, 2013).
Jan Thiele, Ph.D. (2012), is a scholar in Islamic intellectual history based at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. He has published monographs and articles on medieval rational theology, including Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya (Brill, 2013).
âPhilosophical Theology in Islam, edited by Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele, is a thirteen-chapter work of robust scholarship into postclassical AshÊ¿arÄ« theology that boasts papers covering the four corners of the Muslim world. [â¦]Clearly, this volume will be a key resource for those interested in the complex theological legacy bestowed by al-RÄzÄ« to later generations of thinkers and developments in post-classical AshÊ¿arÄ« kalÄm right across the Muslim world.â Kayhan Ali Ãzaykal, in Ilahiyat Studies A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies (2021).
âWe should be grateful for the immense efforts that the editors expended in producing an informative and much sought-after volume; a volume which signals the promising prospects that the study of Ash῾arism holds for future research.â
Livnat Holtzman, Bibliotheca Orientalis , (2022).
âWe should be grateful for the immense efforts that the editors expended in producing an informative and much sought-after volume; a volume which signals the promising prospects that the study of Ash῾arism holds for future research.â
Livnat Holtzman, Bibliotheca Orientalis , (2022).
Contributors
Introduction
âAyman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele
Post-GhazÄlian Theology
What were the Lessons to be Learned from al-GhazÄlÄ«?
âUlrich Rudolph
Al-RÄzÄ«âs Earliest KalÄm Work
Eastern Ashʿarism in the Twelfth Century
âAyman Shihadeh
Le commentaire à la sÅ«rate al-AÊ¿lÄ attribué à Avicenne
Une épître de Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«
âMeryem Sebti
Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«âs Platonist Account of the Essence of Time
âPeter Adamson and Andreas Lammer
The Necessary Existent (wÄjib al-wujÅ«d)
From Avicenna to Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«
âFedor Benevich
Causing an Essence
Notes on the Concept of JaÊ¿l al-MÄhiyya, from Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ« to MullÄ á¹¢adrÄ
âBilal Ibrahim
Early MamlÅ«k AshÊ¿arism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taâʾwÄ«l) of Godâs Attributes
âJon Hoover
Continuing Conversations
Late Sunni KalÄm-Theologyâs Ongoing Engagement with Philosophy
âAaron Spevack
Putting Criticisms against al-GhazÄlÄ« 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-Qurá¹ubÄ«)
âXavier Casassas Canals and Delfina Serrano-Ruano
Ashʿarism in the Ḥafṣid Era
âJan Thiele
The Legacy of Ê¿Aá¸ud al-DÄ«n al-ĪjÄ«
His Works and His Students
âReza Pourjavady
Ashʿarism through an Akbarī Lens
The Two âTaḥqÄ«qsâ in the Curriculum Vitae of IbrÄhÄ«m al-KÅ«rÄnÄ« (d. 1019/1690)
âHarith Ramli
The MawÄqif of Ê¿Aá¸ud al-DÄ«n al-ĪjÄ« in India
âAsad Q. Ahmed
Index
All interested in the history of medieval and early-modern Islamic theology and philosophy, AshÊ¿arism, Avicenna, al-GhazÄlÄ«, Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«, and the dissemination of philosophical theology from the Maghreb to South Asia.