Author: Al-Ghazali
Translator(s): Abdu-R-Rahman Abu Zayd
Publisher: Kitab Bhavan
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 115
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171511902
Description
In Islam, the question of the Divine Attributes has been treated from various perspectives. In the beginning it was viewed primarily as a semantic and metaphysical problem. A later introduction, its most important side. The translator attempts to teat the problem with this logical aspect predominately in mind. Limited both by the scope of this work and by the task of bringing this vast material into reasonable compass, he confines himself to the treatment of the problem as it unfolds in Islamic Peripatetic thought, and the Ash’arite school, with Ghazali being the major representative of the latter. He tests the validity of some of Ghazali’s statements in Iqtisad against the former schools and his findings in Plato and Aristotle.
Iqtisad is Ghazal’s most sophisticated major work on Kalam. He himself holds Iqtisad in high esteem.
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
The Problem in Its Historico-Philosophical Context
Al-Iqtisad fil-I’tiqad, Method and Importance
A Note on Footnote System
Acknowledgements
CHAPTERS
The Second Pivotal Point concerning the Attributes
The Second Attribute: Knowledge
The Third Attribute: Life
The Fourth Attribute: Will
The Fifth and Sixth Attributes concerning Seeing and Healing
The Seventh Attribute concerning Speech
The Second Section of this Cardinal Point
The Second Property of the Attributes
The Third Property
The Fourth Property
Appendix
Bibliography
Index