A medieval critique of anthropomorphism : : Ibn al-Jawzī's Kitāb Akhbār aṣ-ṣifāt : a critical edition of the Arabic text with translation, introduction and notes / / by Merlin Swartz.

• Superior document: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; Volume 46
• VerfasserIn: Swartz, Merlin L., 1933-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; Volume 46.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 468 pages)

This study consists of a critical edition of Ibn al-Jawzī's Kitāb Akhbār as-Sifāt (KAS) along with an annotated translation and introduction. KAS is a critique of anthropomorphic conceptions of God, directed in the first instance against Ibn al-Jawzī's fellow Hanbalī, but also against Sunnī traditionalists more generally. As an intra-Hanbalīr polemic, KAS sheds important new light on the intellectual fault-lines within medieval Hanbalism, and reveals the extent to which kalām had penetrated the Hanbalite school by the 12th century.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- I: Ibn al-Jawzī: A Biographical Sketch -- II: Authorship and Date of Composition -- III: The Argument of Kitāb Akhbār aṣ-Ṣifāt -- IV: The Manuscript: A Brief Description.

PART TWO: TRANSLATION -- Chapter I: The place of reason in matters of faith and the problem of anthropomorphism -- Chapter II: Quranic verses relating to the divine attributes -- Chapter III: Traditions concerning the divine attributes -- Appendix: A Ḥanbalī response to Ibn al-Jawzī’s defense of Taʾwīl: The Risāla of Abū’l-Faḍl al-ʿAlthī.

PART THREE: THE ARABIC TEXT -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- Chapter III.