The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology

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.

• 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

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.