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Early Islamic Theology: The Mu`tazilites and al-Ash`ari
Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. II
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Early Islamic Theology: The Mu`tazilites and al-Ash`ari
Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. II
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This is the second of three volumes reprinting the collected papers on Islamic subjects by Richard M. Frank, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America. It brings together Franks's articles on early kalam, the Mu`tazilites, and the development of the thought of al-Ash`ari. The studies in this collection are of particular importance for the study of kalam, in that they represent an original attempt to make philosophical sense and understand the theoretical underpinnings of the foundational theological tradition in early Islam, the Mu`tazilite school of Basra. They focus, among others, on Abu l-Hudhayl al-`Allaf, al-Jubba`i, and al-Ash`ari, and include a critical edition and translation of the latter's al-Hathth `ala l-bahth.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- I: The Metaphysics of Created Being According to Abū 1-Hudhayl al-'Allāf: A Philosophical Study of the Earliest Kalām
- II: The Divine Attributes According to the Teaching of Abū 1-Hudhayl al-'Allāf
- III: Several Fundamental Assumptions of the Basra School of the Mu'tazila
- IV: Al-Ma'dūm Wal-Mawjūd: The Non-existent, the Existent, and the Possible in the Teaching of Abū Hāshim and his Followers
- V: Abū Hāshim’s Theory of ‘States’: Its Structure and Function
- VI: Elements in the Development of the Teaching of al-Ash'arī
- VII: The Structure of Created Causality According to al-Ash'arī: An Analysis of the Kitāb al-Luma', §§ 82-164
- VIII: Al-Ash'arī’s Conception of the Nature and Role of Speculative Reasoning in Theology
- IX: Al-Ash' arī’s Kitāb al-Hathth' alā l-Bahth [Contains Text and Translation]
- Index