Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam
Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam

Author: Edwin Calverley

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-08-22

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9004531475

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A contemporary to Thomas Aquinas in Latin Catholic Italy, and with a parallel motivation to stabilize each his own civilization in its flux and storm, ‘Abd Allah Baydawi of Ilkhan Persia wrote a compact and memorable Arabic Summation of Islamic Natural and Traditional Theology. With the same strokes of his pen he presented the Islamic version of the Science of Theological Statement, bafflingly called "Kalam" while familiarly embracing "Theology". Baydawi's Tawali‘al-Anwar min Matal‘al-Anzar (Rays of Dawnlight Outstreaming from Far Horizons of Logical Reasoning), with Mahmud Isfahani's commentary, is a formidably clear logical and mental vision of mankind's final completion as a spiritual structure in Islam. Reality - in nature's Possible mode, in an apodictic Divine mode, and in humanity's heroic Prophetic mode - comprises man's Worldview and is the Theme of the Baydawi/Isfahani discourse. The Edifice of Man and Humanity's evanescent Evidence within it are both hugely arresting and moving. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004121027).

Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam
Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam

Author: ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar Bayḍāwī

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13:

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A contemporary to Thomas Aquinas in Latin Catholic Italy, and with a parallel motivation to stabilize each his own civilization in its flux and storm, 'Abd Allah Baydawi of Ilkhan Persia wrote a compact and memorable Arabic Summation of Islamic Natural and Traditional Theology. With the same strokes of his pen he presented the Islamic version of the Science of Theological Statement, bafflingly called "Kalam" while familiarly embracing "Theology". Baydawi's Tawali'al-Anwar min Matal'al-Anzar (Rays of Dawnlight Outstreaming from Far Horizons of Logical Reasoning), with Mahmud Isfahani's commentary, is a formidably clear logical and mental vision of mankind's final completion as a spiritual structure in Islam. Reality - in nature's Possible mode, in an apodictic Divine mode, and in humanity's heroic Prophetic mode - comprises man's Worldview and is the Theme of the Baydawi/Isfahani discourse. The Edifice of Man and Humanity's evanescent Evidence within it are both hugely arresting and moving. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004121027).

God’s Word, Spoken or Otherwise
God’s Word, Spoken or Otherwise

Author: Charles M. Ramsey

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-09-27

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9004472401

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God’s Word, Spoken and Otherwise explores Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s (1817-1898) Muslim Exegesis of the Bible. This is a study of the interplay of prophetic and natural revelation by one of South Asia’s most influential public thinkers.

Is Religion Natural?
Is Religion Natural?

Author: Dirk Evers

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-10-06

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0567227278

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An exploration of the relationship between evolutionary psychology, naturalism, and theological reflections, published by ESSSAT, the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology.

Talking about God and Talking about Creation
Talking about God and Talking about Creation

Author: Rahim Acar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-04

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9047415922

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This study compares Avicenna’s and Thomas Aquinas’ conceptions of God, theological language, the nature of creative action and the beginning of the universe. It emphasizes the connection between their positions regarding theological language and their discussions of creation.

Scripturalist Islam
Scripturalist Islam

Author: Robert Gleave

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9047421620

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The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a rejection of the rational exegetical techniques which had become orthodox doctrine in Imāmī theology and law. However, the Akhbārīs were not simple literalists, as they are at times portrayed in secondary literature. They developed a complex theory of exegesis in which texts could be interpreted, whilst at the same time remaining doggedly committed to the ability of the revelatory texts to provide answers to theological and legal questions arising within the Shīʿī community. This book is the first in-depth study of the intellectual development and historical influence of the Akhbārī School.

Islam as Devotion
Islam as Devotion

Author: Ralf K. Wüstenberg

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-05

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1978703015

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How is it that Islam is so feared and misunderstood among Christians? Is there any possibility of an open dialogue between Muslims and Christians that will lead to a greater understanding of both? Ralf K. Wüstenberg explores these and other questions in an in-depth investigation of Islam, using as his guide the teachings of the revered Muslim scholar, Al-Ghazali, and placing them in dialogue with those of the protestant theologian and Reformer, John Calvin. The journey of discovery offered in this book is of long-lasting value to both Christians and Muslims as they seek to find common ground in understanding the most important and basic tenets of each other’s faith.

The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology
The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology

Author: Timothy Winter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-05-22

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0521780586

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Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. The treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved.

Organizing Knowledge
Organizing Knowledge

Author: Gerhard Endress

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9047408349

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The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of medieval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning, as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin – philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences.The volume begins with a general discussion of the concept of encyclopædia. Successive chapters explore the bases of authority in the institutions of religion and law; biographical literature and handbooks of law; compendia of scientific and philosophical learning based on Iranian and Greek sources; and the more specialised expositions of mathematics and philosophy. The special character of Muslim institutions, their teaching traditions and syllabi is also put into perspective. This is a reference work for the principal genres of ‘enyclopædic’ outlines and manuals – biography, legal handbooks, historiography of knowledge transmission, cosmography, and the philosophical sciences – and a major contribution to the literary and intellectual history.