Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God

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Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God

Suleiman, Farid; El-Tobgui, Carl Sharif

Brill

01/2024

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9789004499898

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Acknowledgements (to the English translation)

Acknowledgements (of the original German version)

List of Figures and Tables



1 Introduction

?1?State of the Field

?2?Objectives and Approach

?3?Overview of the Works of Ibn Taymiyya Most Frequently Used in This Study



Part 1 Ibn Taymiyya's Biography and the History of the Divine Attributes in Islamic Thought before His Time



2 Ibn Taymiyya's Biography



3 The Divine Attributes in Islamic Intellectual History up to the Time of Ibn Taymiyya

?1?The Emergence of the Debate over the Divine Attributes in Early Islam

?2?The Mu?tazila

?3?The Falasifa

?4?Ahl al-?adith

?5?The Ash?aris



Part 2 The Methodological Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's Doctrine of the Divine Attributes



4 Ontological Foundations

?1?The Term wujud: Meaning and Gradations

?2?Likeness (mithl, tamathul) and Similarity (shibh, tashabuh, ishtibah) among Existent Things

?3?Ibn Taymiyya's Ontological Conceptualism

?4?Ibn Taymiyya's Critique of the Doctrine of the Unity of Being (wa?dat al-wujud) in Speculative Sufism



5 Linguistic Foundations

?1?The ?aqiqa-majaz Dichotomy

?2?On the Semantic Relationship of Homonymous Expressions: Ibn Taymiyya's Linguistic Counterproposal to the ?aqiqa-majaz Dichotomy

?3?What Are the Theological Consequences of Ibn Taymiyya's Alternative to the ?aqiqa-majaz Dichotomy?



6 Hermeneutical Foundations

?1?Verse Q. 3:7-Ibn Taymiyya's Understanding of the Terms mu?kam, mutashabih, and ta?wil

?2?Ibn Taymiyya's Challenge to the Validity of Ta?wil Majazi: Attempting to Limit the Scope of Application of the Universal Rule (al-qanun al-kulli)

?3?The Two Principles and the Seven Basic Rules for Interpreting the Divine Attributes



7 Epistemological Foundations

?1?On the Applicability of Qiyas in Theology

?2?The Epistemic Value of Textual Indicants: Ibn Taymiyya in Debate with al-Razi



8 Summary



Part 3 The Divine Essence and Attributes in Focus



9 Temporally Originating States and Acts (?awadith) in the Divine Essence



10 Case Studies of Selected Divine Attributes

?1?al-?Adl: God's Justice

?2?al-Kalam: God's Speech

?3?al-Istiwa?: God's Rising over His Throne

?4?al-Ma?iyya: God's "Withness"



11 Summary



12 Evaluation and Conclusion



Bibliography

Index of People and Subjects

Index of Quranic Verses
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Ibn Taymiyya; divine attributes; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi; Islamic theology; Islamic philosophy; divine justice; hermeneutics; epistemology; ontology; qiyas (analogy) in theology