Islamic Philosophy and Theology
1st Edition
Published on 8. August 2019
184 pages
978-1-4744-7347-7 (ISBN)
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This is the standard general account in English of Islamic philosophy and theology. It takes the reader from the religio-political sects of the Kharijites and the Shiites through to the assimilation of Greek thought in the medieval period, and onto the early modern period. Watt concludes with an analysis of Western influences on modern Islamic theology.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Notes on the Sources
- Part One THE UMAYYAD PERIOD AND ITS PRELUDE
- 1. The Beginnings of Sectarianism
- 2. The Kharijites
- 3. The Early Shi'ites
- 4. The General Religious Movement
- 5. God's Determination of Events
- Part Two THE FIRST WAVE OF HELLENISM
- 6. Politics and theology under the 'Abbasids
- 7. The Attraction of Greek Thought
- 8. The Mu'tazilites
- 9. The Polarization of Sunnism and Shi'ism
- 10. Al-Ash'ari
- Part Three THE SECOND WAVE OF HELLENISM
- 11. The Flowering of Philosophy
- 12. The Progress of Ash'arite Theology
- a) al-Baqillani
- b) the Ash'arites of Nishapur
- 13. Al-Ghazali and Later Ash'arites
- a) his life
- b) his study of philosophy
- c) his practice of ?ufism
- d) The successors of al-Ghazali
- 14. Other Sunnite Theologians, 950-1250
- a) the ?anbalites
- b) the Maturidites
- c) the Mu'tazilites
- d) minor schools
- 15. Theology and Philosophy in the Islamic West
- 16. The Elaboration of Shi'ite Theology
- a) the Imamites
- b) the Isma'ilites
- c) The Zaydites
- Part Four THE LATER MIDDLE AGES, 1250-1850
- 17. The Stagnation of Philosophical Theology
- 18. The Vitality of the ?anbalites
- 19. The Transformation of Shi'ism
- a) The Imamites
- b) the Isma'ilites
- Part Five THE MODERN PERIOD
- 20. The Theological Reponse to the Impact of the West
- General Bibliography
- Index
