ISBN:
9789004158474
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9047420195
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9004158472
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9789047420194
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 270 pages)
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science v. 73
Parallel Title:
Print version Hoover, Jon Ibn Taymiyya's theodicy of perpetual optimism
Keywords:
Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm
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Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm
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God (Islam) History of doctrines
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Good and evil Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Islam Doctrines
;
Optimism
;
Theodicy
;
God (Islam)
;
Good and evil
;
Islam
;
Optimism
;
Theodicy
;
Ibn-Taimīya, Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Ḥalīm
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Ibn-Taimīya, Aḥmad Ibn-ʻAbd-al-Ḥalīm
;
Humanities
;
Islam
;
Religion and beliefs
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RELIGION ; Islam ; General
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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
;
Theodicy
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Theodizee
;
Theodicee
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Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm
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Electronic books
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Ibn-Taimīya, Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Ḥalīm 1263-1328
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Theodizee
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
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