Beyond the Avicennian Turn: The Creeds of Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d. 895/1490)
Even as a new historiographical narrative has emerged regarding post-Ġazālian kalām, one that forgoes assumptions of stagnation and posits instead a dynamic fusion with Avicennian philosophy, most studies so far have focused on the scholarly output of Persia and the broader Islamic East. This articl...
| Published in: | Studia Islamica |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Studia Islamica
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| Further subjects: | B
Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
B Islamic Theology B al-Ǧuwaynī B the Maghrib B Ašʿarism B early modern kalām B Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sanūsī |
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| Summary: | Even as a new historiographical narrative has emerged regarding post-Ġazālian kalām, one that forgoes assumptions of stagnation and posits instead a dynamic fusion with Avicennian philosophy, most studies so far have focused on the scholarly output of Persia and the broader Islamic East. This article aims to complement and complicate that research by analyzing the creedal writings of a major figure in the later theological history of the Islamic West, Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d. 895/1490). Addressing the structure of these creeds, the citations of other scholars therein, and the treatment of the proof for the existence of God, I argue that al-Sanūsī positioned his theological project at a distance from what he considered the excessively philosophized kalām of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1209-10) and his followers. I moreover suggest that understanding the creeds requires a greater appreciation for the Maghribi tradition of engagement with The Guide to Conclusive Proofs by Abū l-Maʿālī al-Ǧuwaynī (d. 478/1085). |
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| ISSN: | 1958-5705 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia Islamica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/19585705-12341407 |