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.
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 agains...
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| Superior document: | Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; Volume 46 |
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| 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) |
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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.