The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology Paperback (Cambridge Companions to Religion) - Softcover

Winter, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521785499 ISBN 13: 9780521785495

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. The treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved.

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'... a reader-friendly volume faithful to the Cambridge series' promise to 'provide an accessible and stimulating introduction to the subject for new readers and non-specialists'.' The Muslim World Book Review

'Tim Winter (University of Cambridge) has brought together fifteen essays on classical Islamic theology at an opportune time, given sentiment today, alerting us to developments in critical understanding of the early period of Islam (in this book, between the seventh century and the sixteenth), and showing us how key theological issues were teased out by various scholars and schools. In doing this, the companion succeeds in mediating what is often a marginalized area of Islamic studies for the ordinary reader ...' Reference Reviews

Biografía del autor:

Tim Winter is University Lecturer in Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521785499
• ISBN 13: 9780521785495
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352