Sophia Vasalou

Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates Ibn Taymiyya's approach to some of the core ethical and theological questions of the classical period of Islam and, in doing so, sheds new light on his intellectual identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199397839
• ISBN-10: 019939783X
• Artikelnr.: 47866171

Autorenporträt

Sophia Vasalou is a Library of Arabic Literature Fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi and an Honorary Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Ethical value between deontology and consequentialism
2 Ethical knowledge between human self-guidance and the revealed Law
3 Ibn Taymiyya's ethics and its Ash'arite antecedents
4 The aims of the Law and the morality of God
5 Broader perspectives on Ibn Taymiyya's ethical rationalism
6 Return to the present
Notes
Bibliography
Index