E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Ormsby Theodicy in Islamic Thought
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5633-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds
E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5633-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book points out distinctively Islamic formulations and solutions of the problem of the best of all possible worlds" and shows where they coincide with Western versions, such as that of Leibniz.
Originally published in 1984.
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Weitere Infos & Material
FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. iii
Preface, pg. vii
Principal Abbreviations, pg. xi
Introduction, pg. 1
ONE. The Perfect Rightness of the Actual, pg. 32
TWO. The Disputants and Their Works, pg. 92
THREE. Divine Power and Possibility, pg. 135
FOUR. Creation as “Natural Necessity”, pg. 182
FIVE. The Problem of the Optimum, pg. 217
Conclusion, pg. 259
Appendix: Types of Possibility, pg. 266
Bibliography, pg. 271
Index, pg. 297
