Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele (editors)

Paperback, 440 pages

9789004544284

Later Asharism East and West

Philosophical Theology in Islam studies the later history of the Ashar school of theology through in-depth probings of its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts. Starting with a review of al-Ghazls 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-Dn al-Rz as well as specific philosophical and theological topics treated in his works. Studies furthermore shed light on the transmission and reception of later Ashar doctrines in periods and regions that have so far received little scholarly attention. This book is the first exploration of the later Ashar tradition across the medieval and early-modern period through a trans-regional perspective.

Contents

1. Post-Ghazlian Theology

2. Al-Rzs Earliest Kalm Work

3. Le commentaire la srate al-Al attribu Avicenne

4. Fakhr al-Dn al-Rzs Platonist Account of the Essence of Time

5. The Necessary Existent (wjib al-wujd)

6. Causing an Essence

7. Early Mamlk Asharism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (tawl) of Gods Attributes

8. Continuing Conversations

9. Putting Criticisms against al-Ghazl in Perspective

10. Asharism in the afid Era

11. The Legacy of Aud al-Dn al-j

12. Asharism through an Akbar Lens

13. The Mawqif of Aud al-Dn al-j in India