Al-Sanūsī Khaled El-Rouayheb

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Rouayheb, Khaled, author.

Series:

Great medieval thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490.

Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf.

Islamic philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

The North African scholar al- Sanusi (d. 1490) was one of the most influential Islamic religious thinkers and undoubtedly the most impactful theologian and logician from Islamic Africa. His works were extremely popular until the modern period and are still printed and studied in the present day. This book covers his life and the main contours of his thought. It covers his works on theology, ranging from popular expositions aimed at ordinary believers to more advanced contributions to Islamic theological controversies, his widely studied handbook on logic, and his discussion of ethics influenced by his commitment to Sufism

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Transliteration Conventions

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works

By Sanūsī

By Mallālī

1 Introduction

2 Life, Works, and Intellectual Milieu

1 Tlemcen

2 Sanūsī: Student and Scholar

3 Sanūsī the Saint

4 Works

5 Ashʿarism in North Africa

6 Ashʿarism: East and West

3 The Condemnation of Imitation

1 Imitation in the Ashʿari Tradition

2 Sanūsī's Condemnation of Imitation

3 Did Sanūsī Moderate His Position in Later Works?

4 "Fossilized Conservatism"?

4 What Every Believer Should Know

1 What Is Necessarily and Impossibly True of God

2 Different Types of Divine Attribute

3 Proof of God's Existence

4 Proofs of God's Attributes of Negation

5 Proofs of God's Entitative Attributes

6 What Is Contingently True of God

7 What Is Necessarily and Impossibly True of God's Prophets

8 What Is Contingently True of the Prophets

9 The Two Professions

10 Is the Average Believer Expected to Be a Philosopher?

5 Logic

1 Background

2 The Epitome of Logic: An Overview

3 The Commentary On the Epitome: A Closer Look

Deviant Propositions

Externalist and Essentialist Readings of Propositions

Modality Propositions

The Immediate Implications of Hypotheticals

4 Sanūsī's Impact

6 Proofs for the Existence of God

2 First Proof

3 Sanūsī's First Proof and the Question of Natural Causation

4 Second Proof

The First Argument

The Second Argument

The Third Argument

The Fourth Argument

5 Sanūsī's Proofs and "The Avicennian Turn"

7 The Divine Attributes

1 Per Se Attributes

2 Negative Attributes

Pre-eternity

Post-eternity

Being Unlike Generated Entities

3 Entitative Attributes

4 The Aristotelian-Neoplatonist Philosophers On the Attributes

5 The Seven Core Attributes

6 The Eternality and Immutability of the Divine Attributes

7 Sanūsī and His Sources

8 Occasionalism

1 Power and Will: Their Attachments

2 The Proof of God's Oneness

3 The Creation of Human Acts

4 Sanūsī and Juwaynī Compared

5 Sanūsī On Medicine

9 Some Older Theological Controversies

1 God's Speech

2 Are Good and Bad Known By Natural Reason?

3 Must God Tell Us the Truth?

10 From Knowledge to Works

1 Occasionalist Ethics

Vigilance

Vices

Virtues

Love

Ashʿarī Sufism

2 Occasionalism and the Benefits of Litanies and Invocations

3 The Tried and Tested Means

11 Sanūsī's Legacy

1 The Spread of Sanūsī's Influence

Tlemcen, Fes, Marrakesh, Algiers

Cairo

Tunis

Sub-Saharan Islamic Africa

2 The Limits of Sanūsī's Influence

3 The Eclipse of Sanūsī's Influence

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 14, 2026)

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780197835678

0197835678

9780197835654

019783566X

9780197835661

0197835651

OCLC:

1565481646

Publisher Number:

CIPO000335205

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