TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1 SABINE SCHMIDTKE
PARTI ISLAMIC THEOLOG(IES) DURING THE FORMATIVE AND THE EARLY MIDDLE PERIOD
1. Origins of Kaldm 27 ALEXANDER TREIGER
2. The Early Qadariyya 44 STEVEN C. JUDD
3. Jahm b. Safwan (d. 128/745-6) and the 'Jahmiyya' and Dirar b. cAmr (d. 200/815) 55 CORNELIA SCHOCK
4- Early Shu Theology 81 MOHAMMAD ALI AMIR-MOEZZI
5- Excursus I: Christian Theological Thought during the First cAbbasid Century 91 SIDNEY H. GRIFFITH
6. Excursus II: Ungodly Cosmologies 103 PATRICIA CRONE
7. The Muctazilite Movement (I): The Origins of the Mu'tazila 130 RACHA EL-OMARI
8. The Mu'tazilite Movement (II): The Early Muctazilites 142 DAVID BENNETT
9- The Mu'tazilite Movement (III): The Scholastic Phase 159 SABINE SCHMIDTKE VI CONTENTS
10. Trie Shu Reception of Muctazilism (I): Zaydis 181 HASSAN ANSARI
11. The Shi'i Reception of Mu'tazilism (II): Twelver Shicis 196 HASSAN ANSARI AND SABINE SCHMIDTKE
12. The Predecessors of Ash'arism: Ibn Kullab, al-Muhasibi and al-Qalanisi 215 HARITH BIN RAMLI
13. Between Cordoba and Nisabur: The Emergence and Consolidation of Ash'arism (Fourth-Fifth/Tenth-Eleventh Century) 225 JAN THIELE
14. Early Ibadi Theology 242 WlLFERD MADELUNG
15. Karramiyya 252 ARON ZYSOW
16. Scripturalist and Traditionalist Theology 263 BlNYAMIN ABRAHAMOV
17. Hanafi Theological Tradition and Maturidism 280 ULRICH RUDOLPH
18. Philosophical Theology 297 PETER ADAMSON
19. Isma'ili Theology 313 DANIEL DE SMET
20. Sufi Theological Thought 325 MARTIN NGUYEN
PART II INTELLECTUAL INTERACTIONS OF ISLAMIC THEOLOGY(IES) —FOUR CASE STUDIES
21. Occasionalism 347 ULRICH RUDOLPH
22. Abu Hashim al-Jubba'is (d. 321/933) Theory of'States' (ahwdl) and its Adaption by Ashcarite Theologians 364 JAN THIELE CONTENTS Vli
23. Theories of Ethical Value in Kalam: A New Interpretation 384 AYMAN SHIHADEH
24. Theology and Logic 408 KHALED EL-ROUAYHEB
PART III ISLAMIC THEOLOGY(IES) DURING THE LATER MIDDLE AND EARLY MODERN PERIOD
25. Theology Engages With Avicennan Philosophy: al-Ghazalis Tahdfut al-faldsifa and Ibn al-Malahimi's Tuhfat al-mutakalliminfil-radd 'aid l-falasifa 435 FRANK GRIFFEL
26. Twelver Shici Theology 456 REZA POURJAVADY AND SABINE SCHMIDTKE
27. Zaydi Theology in Yemen 473 HASSAN ANSARI, SABINE SCHMIDTKE, AND JAN THIELE
28. Handbooks in the Tradition of Later Eastern Ash'arism 494 HEIDRUNEICHNER
29. Later Ash'arism in the Islamic West 515 DELFINA SERRANO RUANO
30. Egypt and the Later Ash'arite School 534 AARON SPEVACK
31. Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac Receptions of Neo-Ash'arite Theology 547 GREGOR SCHWARB
32. Theology in the Ottoman Lands 567 M. SAIT OZERVARLI
33- Theology in Central Asia 587 NATHAN SPANNAUS
34- Theology in the Indian Subcontinent 606 ASAD Q. AHMED AND REZA POURJAVADY Vlll CONTENTS
35. Hanball Theology 625 JON HOOVER
PART IV POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY AND ITS IMPACT ON THEOLOGY- FOUR CASE STUDIES
36. al-Ma'mun (r. 198/813-218/833) and the Mihna 649 NlMROD HURVITZ
37. The Mihna of Ibn cAqil (d. 513/1119) and the Fitnat Ibn al-Qushayri (d. 514/1120) 660 LlVNAT HOLTZMAN
38. The Religious Policy of the Almohads 679 MARIBEL FIERRO
39. Interpretations of Ash'arism and Maturldism in Mamluk and Ottoman Times 693 LUTZ BERGER
PART V ISLAMIC THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT FROM THE END OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE MODERN PERIOD
40. Main Trends of Islamic Theological Thought from the Late Nineteenth Century to Present Times 707 ROTRAUD WlELANDT
41. Striving for a New Exegesis of the Qur3an 765 JOHANNA PINK
Index 793