Introduction Tim Winter; Part I. Historical Perspectives: 1. The Koran and Hadith M. Abdel Haleem; 2. Early kalām Khalid Blankinship; 3. Falsafa Hossein Ziai; 4. The developed kalām tradition Oliver Leaman and Sajjad Rizvi; 5. The social construction of orthodoxy Ahmed El Shamsy; Part II. Themes: 6. God: essence and attributes Nader El-Bizri; 7. Creation David Burrell; 8. Ethics Stefan Stelzer; 9. Revelation Yahya Michot; 10. Cosmology and the existence of God Ayman Shihadeh; 11. Worship William C. Chittick; 12. Theology and jurisprudence Umar F. Abd Allah; 13. Theology and mysticism Toby Mayer; 14. Epistemology and divine discourse Paul Hardy; 15. Eschatology Marcia Hermansen.
A series of critical reflection on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim Theology.
Tim Winter is University Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
'… a reader-friendly volume faithful to the Cambridge series'
promise to 'provide an accessible and stimulating introduction to
the subject for new readers and non-specialists'.' The Muslim World
Book Review
'Tim Winter (University of Cambridge) has brought together fifteen
essays on classical Islamic theology at an opportune time, given
sentiment today, alerting us to developments in critical
understanding of the early period of Islam (in this book, between
the seventh century and the sixteenth), and showing us how key
theological issues were teased out by various scholars and schools.
In doing this, the companion succeeds in mediating what is often a
marginalized area of Islamic studies for the ordinary reader …'
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