Free Will and Predestination in Iislamic Thought by Cillis, Maria de -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction

Objectives and methodology of this volume Historical and cultural context: The status of Kalām, Falsafa and Tasawwūf A brief sketch of the free will and predestination issue: The Mu‘tazilites Mu‘tazilite occasionalism A brief sketch of the free will and predestination issue: The Ash‘arites Ash‘arite occasionalism Notes

1. Avicenna: Part one

2. Avicenna: Part two

Divine and celestial knowledge in relation to determinism The naturalization of rewards and punishments Human soul and freedom Rejection of fatalism Love and determinism Angelology, mystical individuation and inner freedom Notes

3. Al-Ghazālī: Part one

A biography Mishkāt al-Anwār: General considerations

Section 1: Evidences for al-Ghazālī’s gnoseological emanation Gnosticism and Ash‘arite occasionalism Section 2: The Veils hadīth The group of the Attainers

Ihyyā’ ‘ulūm al-dīn: General considerations

The Ash‘arite al-Ghazālī on divine justice

Al-Ghazālī’s revised Ash‘arism: Divine created acts and human acquisition

Modes of actions: Man as the ‘compelled chooser’ The nature of evil Nature and fear ‘Naturality’ of human actions Repentance and hope Trust in God: Responsibility and the role of the divine law Mulk, Malakūt and Jabarūt

Notes

4. Al-Ghazālī: Part two

Logical Necessity inscribed in God’s Custom Natural agency in God’s accommodating Sunna

Notes

5. Ibn ‘Arabī: Part one

A biography Nature of the Akbarian writings Attributes, divine Names and immutable entities From the one to the many: Hints of Avicennian determinism Divine ‘creation’ Divine knowledge Causality in relation to good and evil Divine will Notes

6. Ibn ‘Arabī: Part two

The a‘yān thābita and the realm of responsibility in the divine qadā’ The perfect man The concepts of servanthood (‘ubūdiyya) and servitude (‘ubūda) Freedom (hurriyya) Divine unity and the disposition of things ‘Naturalistic’ predestination Attribution of acts Muhammad and the Haqīqa Muhammadiyya: Compendium of divine decree and destiny Notes

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography Index