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The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology Sabine Schmidtke (Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology By Sabine Schmidtke (Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Summary

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of the art and at the same time suggests new directions for future research.

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology by Sabine Schmidtke (Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been achieved over the past decades with respect both to discoveries of new materials and to scholarly approaches to the field. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of the art and at the same time suggests new directions for future research. Part One covers the various strands of Islamic theology during the formative and early middle periods, rational as well as scripturalist. To demonstrate the continuous interaction among the various theological strands and its repercussions (during the formative and early middle period and beyond), Part Two offers a number of case studies. These focus on specific theological issues that have developed through the dilemmatic and often polemical interactions between the different theological schools and thinkers. Part Three covers Islamic theology during the later middle and early modern periods. One of the characteristics of this period is the growing amalgamation of theology with philosophy (Peripatetic and Illuminationist) and mysticism. Part Four addresses the impact of political and social developments on theology through a number of case studies: the famous mi?na instituted by al-Ma'mun (r. 189/813-218/833) as well as the mihna to which Ibn 'Aqil (d. 769/1367) was subjected; the religious policy of the Almohads; as well as the shifting interpretations throughout history (particularly during Mamluk and Ottoman times) of the relation between Ash'arism and Maturidism that were often motivated by political motives. Part Five considers Islamic theological thought from the end of the early modern and during the modern period.

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology 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 *
Given its scope and the uniformly high quality of the essays, this volume will be an excellent resource/textbook for those interested in Islamic theology and philosophy. Summing up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
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 *

About Sabine Schmidtke (Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

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.

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 Schoeck: 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 Mutazilite movement (I): Origins 8: David Bennett: The Mutazilite movement (II): The Early Phase 9: Sabine Schmidtke: The Mutazilite movement (III): The Scholastic Phase 10: Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke: The Sh=i=i Reception of Mutazilism (I): Zayd=is 11: Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke: The Sh=i=i Reception of Mutazilism (II): Twelver Sh=iites 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: Asharism 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 Asharite 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=iite Theology 27: Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele: Zayd=i Theology in Yemen 28: Heidrun Eichner: Handbooks in the Tradition of Later Eastern Asharism 29: Delfina Serrano: Later Asharism in the Islamic West 30: Aaron Spevack: Egypt and the later Asharite School 31: Gregor Schwarb: Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac Receptions of neo-Asharite 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-Mam=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 Asharism 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

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The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology by Sabine Schmidtke (Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
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