Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation

Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation

A Study of Dar? ta?aru? al-?aql wa-l-naql

El-Tobgui, Carl Sharif

Brill

01/2022

444

Mole

Inglês

9789004511019

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements


List of Figures and Tables





Mise en Scene





Introduction


?1?Contours of a Conflict


?2?Why the Dar? ta?aru??


?3?About This Work





Part 1 Reason vs. Revelation?





1 Reason and Revelation in Islam before Ibn Taymiyya


?1?Reason and Revelation, Reason in Revelation


?2?The Early Emergence of Rationalist and Textualist Tendencies: The Case of the Law


?3?Early Theological Reflection and Contention


?4?The Mu?tazila


?5?Non-speculative Theology and the Legacy of A?mad b. ?anbal


?6?The Mi?na and Its Aftermath


?7?Nascent Ash?ari Thought and the Early Kalam


?8?Philosophy


?9?The New Kalam and Subsequent Developments


?10?Kalam and Falsafa in the Wake of al-Ghazali





2 Ibn Taymiyya: Life, Times, and Intellectual Profile


?1?The Life and Times of Ibn Taymiyya (661-728/1263-1328)


?2?Intellectual Profile


?3?Character and Contemporary Reception


?4?Ibn Taymiyya's Works


?5?The Historiography of the Dar? ta?aru?: Ibn Taymiyya's Assessment of the Intellectual Legacy He Inherited


?6?The Dar? ta?aru? in Context: Ibn Taymiyya's View of Previous Attempts to Solve the Conundrum of Reason and Revelation





3 On the Incoherence of the Universal Rule and the Theoretical Impossibility of a Contradiction between Reason and Revelation


?1?Ibn Taymiyya on the Universal Rule and the Variety of Responses It Has Elicited


?2?The Result of Figurative Interpretation (ta?wil)


?3?Specious Rationality and Its Discontents: Reason in a Cul-de-Sac


?4?Ibn Taymiyya's Project: Refuting the Universal Rule


?5?On Reason Grounding Our Knowledge of Revelation


?6?Knowledge vs. Conjecture: Conclusiveness Is What Counts


?7?Not "Scriptural vs. Rational" but "Scripturally Validated vs. Innovated"


?8?Further Arguments Regarding the Rational Contradictoriness of the Universal Rule


?9?On the Universal Rule's Incompatibility with the Status and Authority of Scripture





Part 2 Ibn Taymiyya's Reform of Language, Ontology, and Epistemology




4 ?a?i? al-Manqul, or What Is Revelation

?1?Ta?wil and the Meaning of Qur?an 3:7


?2?The Centrality of Context and Ibn Taymiyya's "Contextual Ta?wil"


?3?The Salaf and the Authority of Their Linguistic Convention (?urf)


?4?Analysis of Terms to Detect and Correct for Semantic Shift


?5?A Case Study: The Terms wa?id, taw?id, and tarkib





5 ?ari? al-Ma?qul, or What Is Reason?


?1?What Exists? Ibn Taymiyya's Account of Reality


?2?How Do We Know What Exists? The Primary Sources of Knowledge


?3?The Realm of the Mind: What Exists fi al-adhhan?


?4?The Structure of Reason






6 Reason Reconstituted: The Divine Attributes and the Question of Contradiction between Reason and Revelation


?1?Rational Inference and the Question of Qiyas al-gha?ib ?ala al-shahid


?2?Ibn Taymiyya's Reforms Applied: The Question of the Divine Attributes


?3?Concluding Reflections





Appendix A: Summary Outline of the Dar? ta?aru?


Appendix B: Detailed Outline of the Dar? ta?aru?


Glossary of Arabic Terms


Glossary of Proper Names


Bibliography


Index of Arabic Passages

Index of ?adith

Index of People and Places

Index of Qur?anic Verses

Index of Subjects
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Egypt; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi; Islamic epistemology; Islamic ontology; Islamic philosophy; Islamic theology; Syria; al-qanun al-kulli; hermeneutics; literal vs. figurative; mamluk; medieval theology; rationality; reason and scripture; scholasticism; ta?wil; ?aqiqa–majaz