The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought

Contemplating Allah

Mansooreh Khalilizand (University of Freiburg, Germany)

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English

Routledge
18 March 2024

Islamic & Arabic philosophy; Philosophy of religion; Islam; Islamic theology

Series: Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy

The debate over Allah’s attribute—the “nature” and the inner articulation of Allah—is one of the focal debates in the intellectual history of Islam. This edited collection aims to highlight and examine some aspects of this debate in their original context, based on the relevant primary literature.

By showing that even an apparently self-evident concept such as Allah, which lies at the heart of every reading of Islam, is highly ambiguous and polysemous, the chapters also emphasise the plurality that has always existed in Islamic thought. Through highlighting the philosophical and theological reflections on the concept of Allah, the results of this study challenge the juristic reading of Islam, in which Allah’s function consists mainly in providing a detailed plan for the human life and also rewarding or punishing the ones who deviates from it. The book also attempts to demonstrate the relevance and the actuality of the tradition and to stress its contemporaneity.

This volume makes a significant part of the intellectual tradition of Islam accessible for students and scholars of Islamic theology, Islamic philosophy, Islamic studies and the like, as well as providing a secondary source for teaching on the debate in question.

Edited by: Mansooreh Khalilizand (University of Freiburg Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781032571577
ISBN 10: 1032571578
Series: Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 18 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1: Allah of the Philosophers 1. Dancing with the Devil or Chanting with Angels?: al-Rāzī’s Employment of Philosophical Arguments in Discussion of Divine Attributes 2. The Ineffable and the Process of Its Determination: Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī’s Considerations on the Origin 3. Divine Love in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Some Stages in the History of an Attribute 4. Divine Simplicity, the Deus Revelatus, and the Divine Names in the Philosophical Theology of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (1571–1636) Part 2: Allah of the Theologians 5. Abu al-Hudhayl al-‘Allāf on Divine Simplicity 6. Does the Attribute “Baqāʾ” Exist?: Sunni Theologians on God’s Persistence 7. Nūr al-Dīn al-Ṣābūnī and the Divine Attributes: Māturīdī Kalām in a Nutshell 8. Is There an Elephant in Our Presence That We Cannot See?: A Deep Dive Into Bahshamiyya Attributes Discourses 9. The Omnipotence (al-qudra) and the Will of God (al-irāda) in the Theology of Sayf ad-Dīn al-Āmidī

Mansooreh Khalilizand is a research fellow at the Department of Philosophy of Freiburg University in Germany. She is currently working on the philosophy of the 17th-century Iranian philosopher Ṣadr al-Dīn Shirāzī. Her research interests include metaphysics, ontology and epistemology in Islamic philosophy, and Islamic feminism.