Theological rationalism in medieval Islam : new sources and perspectives / edited by Lukas Muehlethaler and Gregor Schwarb in cooperation with Sabine Schmidtke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwarb, Gregor, editor.

Muehlethaler, Lukas, editor.

Schmidtke, Sabine, editor.

Series:

Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 258.

Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta ; 258

Language:

Arabic

English

French

Subjects (All):

Islam--Doctrines--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Islam.

Islam--Doctrines.

History.

Local Subjects:

Islam--Doctrines.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2018.

Language Note:

Contributions in English and French, with summaries in English or French; some text in Arabic.

Summary:

The present volume comprises substantially revised and enlarged versions of papers read at a conference convened in June 2010 by the ERC-Project at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul. Under the title "Theological Rationalism in Medieval Islam: New Texts and Perspectives", a group of leading international scholars was invited to introduce important new kalam-texts that have not been the subject of previous studies or to explore new trajectories in studying known key-texts. While most contributions combine both aspects, they are divided into two groups according to the predominating aspect. The first four contributions introduce hitherto unknown or unexplored texts and assess how these can modify and expand our understanding of kalam. The second group of contributions applies novel methodologies in order to identify and interpret historical and conceptual transformations that occurred within kalam or resulted from its interaction with other disciplines. The question whether God can delay the elucidation of vague or unclear statements raises a number of thorny theological questions. It is hoped that the results of these presentations will have an impact beyond their subject matter in that their novel approaches will find their place in the methodological toolbox of kalam scholarship, thus stimulating work that will further expand our knowledge of Muslim kalam.

Contents:

ʻbd Allāh b. Yazīd al Fazārī's rebutal of the teaching of Ibn ʻUmayr / Wilferd Madelung

Theological compendia in late 6th/12th and early 7th/13th century Zaydism : al Ḥasan al Raṣṣāṣ's K. al-Taḥṣīl and its commentaries / Jan Thiele

"Delaying the eluciation" (Taʼḫīr al bayān) in early Muslim legal theory : theological issues in legal hermeneutics / Robert Gleave

Les rapports ambigus entre Ismaélisme et kalām (10e-11e s.) : polémiques et influences / Daniel de Smet

Tracing changing identities through static doxographical representations / Heidrun Eichner

Ibn Taymiyya's ethics between Ašʻarite voluntarism and Muʻtazilite rationalism : a middle road? / Sophia Vasalou.

Notes:

Papers from an international conference of the same name, held at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul in June 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789042934368

9042934360

OCLC:

1096237813