The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought

The debate over Allah's attribute-the "nature" and the inner articulation of Allah-is one of the focal debates in the intellectual history of Islam. This edited collection aims to highlight and examine some aspects of this debate in their original context, based on the relevant primary literature.

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Mansooreh Khalilizand is a research fellow at the Department of Philosophy of Freiburg University in Germany. She is currently working on the philosophy of the 17th-century Iranian philosopher Sadr al-Din Shirazi. Her research interests include metaphysics, ontology and epistemology in Islamic philosophy, and Islamic feminism.

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The debate over Allah's attribute-the "nature" and the inner articulation of Allah-is one of the focal debates in the intellectual history of Islam. This edited collection aims to highlight and examine some aspects of this debate in their original context, based on the relevant primary literature.

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Part 1: Allah of the Philosophers 1. Dancing with the Devil or Chanting with Angels?: al-Razi's Employment of Philosophical Arguments in Discussion of Divine Attributes 2. The Ineffable and the Process of Its Determination: Sadr al-Din Shirazi's Considerations on the Origin 3. Divine Love in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Some Stages in the History of an Attribute 4. Divine Simplicity, the Deus Revelatus, and the Divine Names in the Philosophical Theology of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (1571-1636) Part 2: Allah of the Theologians 5. Abu al-Hudhayl al-'Allaf on Divine Simplicity 6. Does the Attribute "Baqa " Exist?: Sunni Theologians on God's Persistence 7. Nur al-Din al-Sabuni and the Divine Attributes: Maturidi Kalam in a Nutshell 8. Is There an Elephant in Our Presence That We Cannot See?: A Deep Dive Into Bahshamiyya Attributes Discourses 9. The Omnipotence (al-qudra) and the Will of God (al-irada) in the Theology of Sayf ad-Din al-Amidi