Table of Contents

Sabine Schmidkte: Introduction
Part I: Islamic Theolog(ies) during the formative and the Early Middle Period
1: Alexander Treiger: Origins of Kal=am
2: Steven Judd: The Early Qadariyya
3: Cornelia Schöck: Jahm b. .Safw=an (d. 128/745-46) and the "Jahmiyya" and .Dir=ar b. Amr (d. 200/815)
4: Mohammed-Ali Amir-Moezzi: Early Sh=i"=i Theology
5: Sidney Griffith: Excursus I: Christian Theological Thought during the First "Abb=asid Century
6: Patricia Crone: Excursus II: Ungodly Cosmologies
7: Racha el-Omari: The Mu"tazilite movement (I): Origins
8: David Bennett: The Mu"tazilite movement (II): The Early Phase
9: Sabine Schmidtke: The Mu"tazilite movement (III): The Scholastic Phase
10: Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke: The Sh=i"=i Reception of Mu"tazilism (I): Zayd=is
11: Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke: The Sh=i"=i Reception of Mu"tazilism (II): Twelver Sh=i"ites
12: Harith Bin Ramli: The Predecessors of Ash;"arism: Ibn Kull=ab, al-Mu.h=asib=i, and al-Qal=anis=i
13: Jan Thiele: Ash"arism in the East and the West
14: Wilferd Madelung: Ib=a.diyya
15: Aron Zysow: Karr=amiyya
16: Binyamin Abrahamov: Scripturalist and Traditionalist Theology
17: Ulrich Rudolph: .Hanaf=i Theological Tradition and M=aturidism
18: Peter Adamson: Philosophical Theology
19: Daniel de Smet: Ism=a"=il=i Theology
20: Martin Nguyen: Sufi Theological Thought
Part II: Intellectual Interactions of Islamic theology(ies)-Four Case Studies
21: Ulrich Rudolph: Occasionalism
22: Jan Thiele: Ab=u H=ashim al-Jubb=a"=i's (d. 321/933) Theory of the States (a.hw=al) and its Adaptation among Ash"arite Theologians
23: Ayman Shihadeh: Theories of Ethical Value in Kal=am: A New Interpretation
24: Khaled el-Rouayheb: Theology and Logic
Part III: Islamic Theology(ies) During the Later Middle and Early Modern Period
25: Frank Griffel: Theology versus Philosophy: al-Ghaz=al=i's Tah=afut al-fal=asifa and Ibn al-Mal=a.him=i's Tu.hfat al-mutakallim=in fi l-radd "al=a l-fal=asifa
26: Reza Pourjavady and Sabine Schmidtke: Twelver Sh=i"ite Theology
27: Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele: Zayd=i Theology in Yemen
28: Heidrun Eichner: Handbooks in the Tradition of Later Eastern Ash"arism
29: Delfina Serrano: Later Ash"arism in the Islamic West
30: Aaron Spevack: Egypt and the later Ash"arite School
31: Gregor Schwarb: Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac Receptions of neo-Ash"arite Theology
32: M. Sait Ozervarli: Theology in the Ottoman Lands
33: Nathan Spannaus: Theology in Central Asia
34: Asad Q. Ahmed and Reza Pourjavady: Theology in the Indian Subcontinent
35: Jon Hoover: .Hanbal=i Theology
Part IV: Political and Social History and its Impact on Theology: Four Case Studies
36: Nimrod Hurvitz: al-Ma"m=un (r. 189/813-218/833) and the Mi.hna
37: Livnat Holtzman: The Mi.hna of Ibn "Aq=il (d. 513/1119) and the Fitnat Ibn al-Qushayr=i
38: Maribel Fierro: The Religious Policy of the Almohads
39: Lutz Berger: Interpretations of Ash"arism and M=atur=idism among Mamluks and Ottomans
Part V: Islamic Theological Thought from the end of the Early Modern Period through the Modern Period
40: Rotraud Wielandt: Main Trends of Islamic Theological Thought from the late 19th Century to Present Times
41: Johanna Pink: Striving for a New Exegesis of the Qur"=an

About the Author

Sabine Schmidtke (D.Phil. University of Oxford) is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish intellectual history.

Reviews

A collection of forty-one innovative articles, the volume widens the scope of scholarship to include geographical areas and theological topics that have remained explored... the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology is a go-to place for the latest scholarship on Islamic theologies that flourished in diverse Islamic lands, and for lucid expositions of a number of philosophical and theological difficulties that the mutakallimun sought to resolve.
*Tariq Jaffer, Department of Religion, Amherst College*

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology is an impressive encyclopaedic work, accessible and yet comprehensive, on the latest and most authoritative research on Islamic theology. This is the place to start for any student or early researcher in Islamic theology, and certainly a work that I highly recommend.
*Abdessamad Belhaj, MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations*