Bøger i Islamic Philosophy, Theology a serien

This comprehensive study of Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) theodicy of perpetual optimism exposits and analyses his writings on God's justice and wise purpose, divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic method in theological doctrine.

"The book approaches the conceptual background of Avicenna's account of efficient causality, outlining the positions held by him and his early interpreters (eleventh and twelfth centuries), as well as the arguments that support those positions. The first aim of the book is to show the systematic unity of the Avicennian doctrines on ontology and aetiology, highlighting the threads connecting the two. The second aim is to investigate Avicenna's influence over his intepreters, assessing continuities and discontinuties"--

In Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God, Farid Suleiman offers a comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya's views on God and His attributes, contextualizing his position within the century-old debates on this fraught theological issue.