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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 January 2019
      31 January 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108614252
      9781108476768
      9781108701471
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614252
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 258 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Legal History, Islam, Law, Religion
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    In this book, Omar Farahat presents a new way of understanding the work of classical Islamic theologians and legal theorists who maintained that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of the norms and values of human actions. Through a reconstruction of classical Ashʿarī-Muʿtazilī debates on the nature and implications of divine speech, Farahat argues that the Ashʿarī attachment to revelation was not a purely traditionalist position. Rather, it was a rational philosophical commitment emerging from debates in epistemology and theology. He further argues that the particularity of this model makes its distinctive features helpful for contemporary scholars who defend a form of divine command theory. Farahat's volume thus constitutes a new reading of the issue of reason and revelation in Islam and breaks new ground in Islamic theology, law and ethics.

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    ‘The book undoubtedly makes important contributions to contemporary scholarship on theology, the history of Islamic sects and doctrines, and uṣūl al-fiqh.’

    Necmettin Kızılkaya Source: Nazariyat

    'Written in a scholarly, yet clear, fashion, the book is suitable for scholars and students of Islamic studies generally, and Islamic theology, Islamic law, Islamic history, and Islamic ethics more specifically… this work offers an important contribution for religious moral and legal theories in general.'

    Sami Al-Daghistani Source: Journal of Law and Religion

    ‘… an important contribution for religious moral and legal theories …’

    Sami Al-Daghistani Source: Journal of Law and Religion

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