Chapter 6. Third Principle: The Promise and the Threat (al-waʻd wa al-waʻīd)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Al-Zamakhsharī’ Life and Works
6. Chapter 1. Al-Zamakhsharī’s Biography 11
7. Chapter 2. Al-Kashshāf 33
8. Chapter 3. Al-Zamakhsharī’s Methodology of Tafsīr 58
9. Part II: The Five Principles
10. Chapter 4. The Five Principles (al-uṣūl al-khamsa) 97
11. Chapter 5. Second Principle: Justice (‘adl) 139
12. Chapter 6. Third Principle: The Promise and the Threat (al-waʻd wa al-waʻīd) 162
13. Chapter 7. Fourth Principle: The Intermediate Position between Belief and Unbelief (al-manzila bayna al-manzilatayn) 177
14. Chapter 8. Fifth Principle: Enjoining what is Right and Forbidding what is Wrong (al-amr bi al-maʻrūf wa al-nahy ‘an al-munkar) 188
15. Conclusion 195
16. Appendix: Al-Zamakhsharī’s Scholarly Contribution 205
17. Bibliography 228
18. Index of Names 246
19. Index of Subjects 252
20. Index of Qurʼān Citations 255