BOOK

Islamic theology and the problem of evil

Chowdhury, S. Z. author

2021

Overview

\"Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and suffering in the world. At its core, Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil explores four different problems of evil: human disability, animal suffering, evolutionary natural selection, and Hell. Each study argues in favor of a particular kind of explanation or justification (theodicy) for the respective evil. Safaruk Chowdhury unpacks the notion of evil and its conceptualization within the mainstream Sunni theological tradition, and the various ways in which theologians and philosophers within that tradition have advanced different types of theodicies. He not only builds on previous works on the topic, but also looks at kinds of theodicies previously unexplored within Islamic theology, such as an evolutionary theodicy. Distinguished by its application of an analytic-theology approach to the subject and drawing on insights from works of both medieval Muslim theologians and philosophers and contemporary philosophers of religion, this novel and highly systematic study will appeal to students and scholars, not only of theology but of philosophy as well. \"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Subject: Good and evil Religious aspects Islam / Islamic ethics / Theodicy
• ISBN: 9781617979934

Item info:

2 items available

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Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BP 188 .C46 2021	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE
BP188.C48 2021	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE