The History of Islamic Theology from Muhammad to the Present

• Author(s): Tilman Nagel,
• Publisher: Markus Weiner Publishers
• Pages: 329
• ISBN_10: 1558762027
  ISBN_13: 9781558762022
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / History , Religion / Islam / General , Religion / Theology ,

Description:... Preface p. ix Chapter I The Koran, the Foundation of Islamic Theology p. 1 1. The Koran in Islamic Faith p. 1 2. Islam p. 2 3. Early History of the Koran p. 11 4. Central Themes of the Koran's Message p. 13 a) Divine "Destination" or "Power p. 13 b) The Human Creature p. 16 c) Attaining Salvation p. 21 Chapter II Faith and "Islam" p. 27 1. Muslim Views on the Origin of Religious Persuasions p. 27 2. On Islamic History between 632 and 750 p. 29 3. Divine Determination versus Human Determination p. 35 4. The Kharijites p. 41 5. The Shiites p. 49 6. Judgment Postponed p. 57 7. The Beginnings of Sunnism p. 63 Chapter III The Two Types of Islam's Theological Literature p. 73 1. The Hadith p. 73 2. The Kalam p. 82 Chapter IV Early Rationalism p. 93 1. Arab-Muslim Society p. 93 2. A Glance at the Early Abbasid Period p. 97 3. The One God and His Revelation p. 100 4. Human Actions p. 109 5. Physics and Metaphysics p. 115 6. Sunnites and Shiites as Opponents of Rationalist Theology p. 118 Chapter V Rationalism and Tradition p. 125 1. The Caliphate's Political Decline p. 125 2. Early Theological Reflection in Sunnism p. 128 3. Sufism and Rationalism p. 136 4. Sunnite Rationalism p. 148 5. The Asharite School p. 158 Chapter VI Theology and Philosophy p. 171 1. Exoteric and Esoteric Meaning of the Revelation p. 171 2. A Glance at the History of the Islamic Mind in the High Middle Ages p. 178 3. Islamic Philosophy p. 184 4. Re-establishing All Creatures' Power of Being p. 194 5. Islamic Theology in the High and Late Middle Ages p. 206 Chapter VII Islam and Gnosis p. 215 1. Prophetic Message and Gnostic Weltanschauung p. 215 2. Gnosis and Early Islamic Theology p. 220 3. Gnosis within Islam p. 225 Chapter VIII Islamic Orthodoxy p. 235 1. Sunnism as the Religious Creed of the Majority p. 235 2. Orthodoxy and the Islamic State p. 241 3. Shiite Orthodoxy p. 248 Chapter IX Islam as Ideology p. 253 1. Islam Is Knowledge p. 253 2. Reform in the Spirit of Orthodoxy p. 261 3. Islam as Ideology p. 271 Epilogue p. 277 1. Summary p. 277 2. The Tasks p. 280 Chronology p. 285 Notes p. 289 Recommendations for Further Reading p. 313 Glossary of Arabic Terms p. 317 Indexes p. 323 1. Persons p. 323 2. Concepts and Groups p. 326.