The Problem of Evil in the Early Modern Ottoman Period: ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī’s Synthetic Metaphysics of Faith and Disbelief = mškla ālšr fī ālʿṣr ālʿṯmānī: ʿbd ālġnī ālnāblsī ū mītāfīzīqīā ālāʾīmān ūālkfr
The early modern Muslim world witnessed unparalleled development in theological discussion, of which the problem of evil is a part. This paper aims to uncover a new discourse on the problem of evil in the Ottoman period, by examining the eleventh/ seventeenth-century polymath ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulu...
| Subtitles: | mškla ālšr fī ālʿṣr ālʿṯmānī: ʿbd ālġnī ālnāblsī ū mītāfīzīqīā ālāʾīmān ūālkfr |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Journal of Islamic ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 8, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 201-220 |
| Further subjects: | B
Akbarian Sufism
B faith and disbelief B Ashʿarī kalām B ālklām ālāʾšʿrī B ālṭrīqa ālāʾkbrīa B āʾīmān ūkfr B Metaphysics B ʿbd ālġnī ālnāblsī B ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī B mītāfīzīqīā |
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| Summary: | The early modern Muslim world witnessed unparalleled development in theological discussion, of which the problem of evil is a part. This paper aims to uncover a new discourse on the problem of evil in the Ottoman period, by examining the eleventh/ seventeenth-century polymath ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī’s (d. 1143/1731) synthetic theology of evil. More specifically, the study will analyze the way al-Nābulusī discusses the issue of faith (īmān) and disbelief (kufr) in his Ashʿarī kalām and Akbarian Sufism. Looking first at al-Nābulusī’s kalām metaphysics of īmān and kufr and then his mystical metaphysics, the paper corroborates how between the two sciences, there is a coherent logic in al-Nābulusī’s concordia theology. |
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| ISSN: | 2468-5542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Islamic ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/24685542-20240004 |
