Early Muslim and Jewish Kalām: The Enterprise of Reasoned Discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Introduction: Rationalization in Religions 1
5. Dualists against Monotheists: Zoroastrian Debates with Other Religions 5
6. Philo’s Rationalization of Judaism 21
7. Forms of Rationalization in Medieval Jewish Thought 45
8. Origen of Alexandria: The Bible and Philosophical Rationality, or: Problems of Traditional Dualisms 63
9. Theodore of Mopsuestia: Rationalizing Hermeneutics and Theology 74
10. “I Trapped You with Guile”: Rationalizing Theology in Late Antiquity 103
11. Rationalizing Visions in Early Modern Catholicism 127
12. “They Shall Be All Taught of God”: Schleiermacher on Christianity and Protestantism 146
13. Christian Theology as a Rationalization of Religion: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Research University 156
14. Die Rationalität des Glaubens: Über die wechselseitige Angewiesenheit von Glauben und Wissen 178
15. Early Muslim and Jewish Kalām: The Enterprise of Reasoned Discourse 202
16. On Divine Aboveness (al-Fawqiyya): The Development of Rationalized Ḥadīth- Based Argumentations in Islamic Theology 224
17. Rationality and Rationalism in Islamic Mysticism: The Case of Ibn al- ʿ Arabī 270
18. Quasi-Rational and Anti-Rational Elements in Radical Muslim Thought: The Case of Abū al-A ʿ lā Mawdūdī 289
19. Contributors to This Volume 301
20. Index 303