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Index
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
Avicenna: a biography
Aristotelian and Fārābīan influences
Essence, existence, matter, form and substance: A definitional survey
Emanation and divine willingness: Attempts at compromise between Aristotelian necessity and Ash‘artite contingency
Determinism vs predestination
Matter’s revised passivity in relation to determinism
Potentiality and privation between determinism and predestination
Matter and evil
Matter’s ‘disobedience’ and its compliance to the divine decree
Notes
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
Al-Maqsad al-asnā fī sharh ma‘anī asmā’ Allāh al-husnā
Divine predestination for happiness and misery
al-Iqtisād fī’l-i‘tiqād and the Tahāfut al-falāsifa
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
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