Philosophical Theology in Islam

Ayman Shihadeh, DPhil, is an intellectual historian of the pre-modern Islamic world. His publications include The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (Brill, 2006) and Doubts on Avicenna (Brill, 2015). He is Editor-in-Chief of BSOAS and Section Editor for Philosophy and Theology on the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Jan Thiele, Ph.D. (2012), is a scholar in Islamic intellectual history based at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. He has published monographs and articles on medieval rational theology, including Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya (Brill, 2013).

• ContributorsIntroductionAyman Shihadeh and Jan ThielePost-Ghazālian TheologyWhat were the Lessons to be Learned from al-Ghazālī?Ulrich RudolphAl-Rāzī’s Earliest Kalām WorkEastern Ashʿarism in the Twelfth CenturyAyman ShihadehLe commentaire à la sūrate al-Aʿlā attribué à AvicenneUne épître de Fakhr al-Dīn al-RāzīMeryem SebtiFakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Platonist Account of the Essence of TimePeter Adamson and Andreas LammerThe Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd)From Avicenna to Fakhr al-Dīn al-RāzīFedor BenevichCausing an EssenceNotes on the Concept of Jaʿl al-Māhiyya, from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī to Mullā ṢadrāBilal IbrahimEarly Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (ta‌ʾwīl) of God’s AttributesJon HooverContinuing ConversationsLate Sunni Kalām-Theology’s Ongoing Engagement with PhilosophyAaron SpevackPutting Criticisms against al-Ghazālī in PerspectiveNew Materials on the Interface between Law, Rational Theology and Mysticism in Almoravid and Almohad al-Andalus (Ibn Rushd al-Jadd and al-Qurṭubī)Xavier Casassas Canals and Delfina Serrano-RuanoAshʿarism in the Ḥafṣid EraJan ThieleThe Legacy of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-ĪjīHis Works and His StudentsReza PourjavadyAshʿarism through an Akbarī LensThe Two “Taḥqīqs” in the Curriculum Vitae of Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1019/1690)Harith RamliThe Mawāqif of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī in IndiaAsad Q. AhmedIndex

“Philosophical Theology in Islam, edited by Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele, is a thirteen-chapter work of robust scholarship into postclassical Ashʿarī theology that boasts papers covering the four corners of the Muslim world. […]Clearly, this volume will be a key resource for those interested in the complex theological legacy bestowed by al-Rāzī to later generations of thinkers and developments in post-classical Ashʿarī kalām right across the Muslim world.” Kayhan Ali Özaykal, in Ilahiyat Studies A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies (2021). “We should be grateful for the immense efforts that the editors expended in producing an informative and much sought-after volume; a volume which signals the promising prospects that the study of Ash῾arism holds for future research.” Livnat Holtzman, Bibliotheca Orientalis , (2022).