The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology

NOTE EDITORE

Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been achieved over the past decades with respect both to discoveries of new materials and to scholarly approaches to the field. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of the art and at the same time suggests new directions for future research. Part One covers the various strands of Islamic theology during the formative and early middle periods, rational as well as scripturalist. To demonstrate the continuous interaction among the various theological strands and its repercussions (during the formative and early middle period and beyond), Part Two offers a number of case studies. These focus on specific theological issues that have developed through the dilemmatic and often polemical interactions between the different theological schools and thinkers. Part Three covers Islamic theology during the later middle and early modern periods. One of the characteristics of this period is the growing amalgamation of theology with philosophy (Peripatetic and Illuminationist) and mysticism. Part Four addresses the impact of political and social developments on theology through a number of case studies: the famous mi?na instituted by al-Ma'mun (r. 189/813-218/833) as well as the mihna to which Ibn 'Aqil (d. 769/1367) was subjected; the religious policy of the Almohads; as well as the shifting interpretations throughout history (particularly during Mamluk and Ottoman times) of the relation between Ash'arism and Maturidism that were often motivated by political motives. Part Five considers Islamic theological thought from the end of the early modern and during the modern period.

SOMMARIO

1 - Origins of Kalam2 - The Early Qadariyya3 - Jahm b. ?afwan (d. 128/745-46) and the "Jahmiyya" and .Dirar b. Amr (d. 200/815)4 - Early Shi"i Theology5 - Excursus I: Christian Theological Thought during the First "Abbasid Century6 - Excursus II: Ungodly Cosmologies7 - The Mu"tazilite movement (I): Origins8 - The Mu"tazilite movement (II): The Early Phase9 - The Mu"tazilite movement (III): The Scholastic Phase10 - The Shi"i Reception of Mu"tazilism (I): Zaydis11 - The Shi"i Reception of Mu"tazilism (II): Twelver Shi"ites12 - The Predecessors of Ash;"arism: Ibn Kullab, al-Mu?asibi, and al-Qalanisi13 - Ash"arism in the East and the West14 - Iba?iyya15 - Karramiyya16 - Scripturalist and Traditionalist Theology17 - ?anafi Theological Tradition and Maturidism18 - Philosophical Theology19 - Isma"ili Theology20 - Sufi Theological Thought21 - Occasionalism22 - Abu Hashim al-Jubba"i's (d. 321/933) Theory of the States (a?wal) and its Adaptation among Ash"arite Theologians23 - Theories of Ethical Value in Kalam: A New Interpretation24 - Theology and Logic25 - Theology versus Philosophy: al-Ghazali's Tahafut al-falasifa and Ibn al-Mala?imi's Tu?fat al-mutakallimin fi l-radd "ala l-falasifa26 - Twelver Shi"ite Theology27 - Zaydi Theology in Yemen28 - Handbooks in the Tradition of Later Eastern Ash"arism29 - Later Ash"arism in the Islamic West30 - Egypt and the later Ash"arite School31 - Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac Receptions of neo-Ash"arite Theology32 - Theology in the Ottoman Lands33 - Theology in Central Asia34 - Theology in the Indian Subcontinent35 - ?anbali Theology36 - al-Ma"mun (r. 189/813-218/833) and the Mi?na37 - The Mi?na of Ibn "Aqil (d. 513/1119) and the Fitnat Ibn al-Qushayri38 - The Religious Policy of the Almohads39 - Interpretations of Ash"arism and Maturidism among Mamluks and Ottomans40 - Main Trends of Islamic Theological Thought from the late 19th Century to Present Times41 - Striving for a New Exegesis of the Qur"an

AUTORE

Sabine Schmidtke (D.Phil. University of Oxford) is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish intellectual history.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198816607
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 244 x 42.8 x 170 mm Ø 1472 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 832