Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 July 2018
- ISBN 9780190912512
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 155x231x22 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book investigates Ibn Taymiyya's approach to some of the core ethical and theological questions of the classical period of Islam and, in doing so, sheds new light on his intellectual identity.
MoreLong description:
Icon of modern-day fundamentalist movements, firebrand religious purist, tireless polemicist against the intellectual schools of his time-the Ibn Taymiyya we know is a thinker we often associate with hard attitudes and dogmatic stances. Yet there is another Ibn Taymiyya that stands out from the pages of his work, the thinker who fashions himself as a master of the via media and as a defender of the harmony between human reason and the religious faith. The aim of this book is to shed fresh light on Ibn Taymiyya's intellectual identity by a close investigation of his ethical thought. Earlier Muslim thinkers debating ethical value had been exercised by a number of core questions. What makes actions right or wrong? How do human beings know it? And what is God's relationship to the evaluative standards discerned by the human mind? An investigation of Ibn Taymiyya's engagement with such questions has much to teach us about his intellectual program and particularly about the role of reason and the linchpin concept of human nature (fitra) within this program. It also has much to teach us about Ibn Taymiyya's relationship to the intellectual landscape of his time, bringing us up against a rich tapestry of ethical discussions unfolding within theology, philosophy and legal theory in the classical period. At the same time, a close reading of Ibn Taymiyya's ethics invites us to confront not only the content of his thought but its form, and more particularly those features of his writing that fracture our efforts to unify his thought.
Ibn Taymiyya is often misunderstood as a simplistic textualist. Sophia Vasalou's masterly book shows that his thought has several surprises in store. Her highly analytical engagement helps us to get at the bottom of his kind of rationalism; a rationalism that has influenced almost all branches of modern and contemporary thought in Islam.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Ethical value between deontology and consequentialism
2 Ethical knowledge between human self-guidance and the revealed Law
3 Ibn Taymiyya's ethics and its Ash'arite antecedents
4 The aims of the Law and the morality of God
5 Broader perspectives on Ibn Taymiyya's ethical rationalism
6 Return to the present
Notes
Bibliography
Index
