Theodicy in Islamic thought : the dispute over al-Ghazālī's "best of all possible worlds" /
The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book points out distinctively Islamic formulations and solutions of the problem of the best of all possible worlds" and shows where they coincide with Western versions, such as that of Leibniz. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1984]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Principal Abbreviations
- Introduction
- ONE. The Perfect Rightness of the Actual
- TWO. The Disputants and Their Works
- THREE. Divine Power and Possibility
- FOUR. Creation as "Natural Necessity"
- FIVE. The Problem of the Optimum
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Types of Possibility
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter.
