Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Religious Utilitarianism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Philosophical Reflections in the Poetry of al-Shāfiʿī 1
5. Ethics and Fiqh in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy 11
6. Ibn Sīnā’s Moral Ontology and Theory of Law 29
7. In the Footsteps of Ibn Sīnā? The Uṣūlī Debate on the Argumentum e Contrario 53
8. Al-Ghazālī on Philosophy and Jurisprudence 67
9. Syllogistic Logic in Islamic Legal Theory: al-Ghazālī’s Arguments for the Certainty of Legal Analogy (Qiyās) 93
10. Deontic Modalities in Ibn Ḥazm 113
11. Splitting the Process and the Result: Philosophy from a Legal Perspective in Averroes’ Decisive Treatise 129
12. Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Religious Utilitarianism 145
13. Value Ontology and the Assumption of Non-Assessment in Postclassical Shīʿī Legal Theory 169
14. Tajarrī as Religious Luck 195
15. Concomitance to Causation: Arguing Dawarān in the Proto-Ādāb al-Baḥth 205
16. Bibliography 283
17. Index of Names 307
18. Index of Subjects 311