The Censure of Speculative Theology of Ibn Qudama: (Tahrim Al-Nazar Fi Kutub Al Al-Kalam)

ISBN-13: 9780906094167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 156 str.

Makdisi, G.

Opis

Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn Aqil (d. 1119). Ibn Aqil, though himself a Hanbali, had come at one stage under the influence of Mu'tazilite thought and adopted certain of its views, which he was later obliged to retract. Ibn Qudama took the traditionalist position that speculative theology (kalam) and allegorical interpretation (ta'wil) were innovations and ipso facto not permissible. This edition is based on the Haidarabad MS.