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Classical Islamic Theology: The Ash`arites
Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. III
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Classical Islamic Theology: The Ash`arites
Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. III
About this book
This is the third of three volumes reprinting the collected papers on Islamic subjects by Richard M. Frank, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America, and completes the set. The present volume on the Ash`arites and the classical Ash`arite tradition brings together articles written in the last two decades of Richard Frank's scholarly activity which represent his mature thought on the main philosophical and doctrinal elements of that tradition. The volume opens with two more general studies, one on the science of kalam, presenting Frank's most profound insights on its very nature and essence, followed by a series of detailed and incisive analyses of the physics, metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology of the Ash`arite system. This body of work forms the vanguard of modern studies on the subject and will repay repeated and prolonged study.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Publisher's Note
- I: Hearing and Saying what was Said
- II: The Science of Kālam
- III: Moral Obligation in Classical Muslim Theology
- IV: Can God do what is Wrong?
- V: Attribute, Attribution, and Being: Three Islamic Views
- VI: Two Islamic Views of Human Agency
- VII: Knowledge and Taqlīzd: The Foundations of Religious Belief in Classical Ash'arism
- VIII: The Non-Existent and the Possible in Classical Ash'arite Teaching
- IX: The Ash'arite Ontology. I: Primary Entities
- X: Bodies and Atoms: the Ash'arite Analysis
- XI: Al-Ahkām in Classical Ash'arite Teaching
- XII: Notes and Remarks on the ṭabā'i' in the Teaching of Al-Māturīdī
- XIII: The Autonomy of the Human Agent in the Teaching of 'Abd Al-Ǧabbār
- XIV: AI-Ustādh Abū Isḥāḳ: An 'Aḳīda Together with Selected Fragments
- Index