Anthropomorphism in Islam: The Challenge of Traditionalism (700-1350)

ISBN-13: 9780748689569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 448 str.

Livnat Holtzman

Opis

Through a close, contextualized, and interdisciplinary reading in Hadith compilations, theological treatises, and historical sources, this book offers an evaluation and understanding of the traditionalistic endeavours to define anthropomorphism in the most crucial and indeed most formative period of Islamic thought.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Narrator and the Narrative: A Literary Analysis of A??d?th al-?if?t; Introduction; I. A Preliminary Remark on Hadith and Narratology; II. The Framing Narrative; III. The Embedded Narrative; IV. The Narrator and His Audience; V. The Motives of the Narrator; VI. The Narrator’s Role; 2. A Tale of Two Narrators: Some Historical, Geographical, and Cultural Considerations; Introduction; I. Two Different Narrators; II. The Proliferation of the Abu Razin Narrative; III. Two Narrators and One Narrative: The Tribal Connection; IV. The Proliferation of the Jarir Narrative; V. The Jarir Narrative and the Mi?na; 3. Gestures and A??d?th al-?if?t; Introduction; I. The Prophet’s Gestures: Iconic, Metaphoric, and Deictic; II. ‘The Instance of Narrating’: The Narrator and His Audience; III. The Performing Trend; IV. The Ultimate Performer of A??d?th al-?if?t; V. The Predicament of the Traditionalists; 4. The Diversified Solution to the Challenge of Islamic Traditionalism: A??d?th al-?if?t and Bi-L? Kayfa; Introduction; I. Drawing the Borderlines of the Traditionalistic Discourse; II. The Earliest Debate; III. Transmission, Censorship, and Euphemisms; IV. The All-Inclusive Tanz?h: The Ash?arite Solution; V. Expanding the Borders of the Traditionalistic Discourse; 5. Iconic Books and Gestures: A??d?th al-?if?t in the Public Sphere; Introduction; I. The Iconicity of the Qadiri Creed; II. The Three Dimensions of Kit?b al-Taw??d; III. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Response to Kit?b al-Taw??d; IV. Ibn Taymiyya’s al-?amawiyya al-Kubr? and Two Iconic Gestures; V. Iconic Gestures and the Hashwiyya; Final Remarks and Conclusions; Appendix I: Full Translations of Lengthy Traditions; 1. A Marginal Version of ?ad?th al-Nuz?l; 2. The Lengthy ?ad?th al-Ru?ya; 3. The Lengthy ?ad?th Fid?? al-Mu?min from Ibn ?Asakir’s T?r?kh Dimashq; Appendix II: Full Translation of ‘the ?ad?th of Allegiance’ of Abu Razin; Appendix III: Chains of Transmission; Appendix IV: Chains of Transmission; Appendix V: Chains of Transmission; Bibliography; I. Primary Sources; II. Secondary Sources.