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Contents

List of Reprinted Works

Note on Transliteration

List of Contributors

General Introduction S.H Nasr

Introductory Analysis M. Aminrazavi

PART I. Mu'tazilism

Introduction S.H Nasr

1. Abu'l-Hudhayl al-'Allāf

Introduction S.H Nasr

Selections (from Madhāhib al-Islāmiyyīn)

2. Ibrāhīm al-Nazzām

Introduction S.H Nasr

Selections (from Madhāhib al-Islāmiyyīn)

3. Qādī 'Abd al-Jabbār

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

The Book that Makes Others Superfluous (from al-Mughnī fi'l-abwāb al-tawhīd wa'l-'adl)

PART II. LATER SUNNI THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT

Introduction S.H Nasr

1. Imam al-Haramayn Juwaynī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

The Book of Guidance (from Kitāb al-irshād)

2. Abū Hāmid Muhammad Ghazzālī

Introduction S.H Nasr

The Incoherence of the Philosophers (from Tahāfut al-falāsifah)

The Just Mean in Belief (from al-Iqtisād fi'l-i'tiqād)

The Book of Knowledge (from Ihyā' 'ulūm al-dīn)

3. Muhammad Shahrastānī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

The Summa Philosophiae (from Nihāyat al-iqdām fī 'ilm al kalām

4. Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

Commentary on the Book of Directives and Remarks (from Sharh al-ishārāt)

Oriental Discourses (from al-Mabāhith al-mashriqiyyah)

The Soul, Spirit and Elaboration of their Faculties (from al-Nafs wa'l-rūh wa sharh quwāhumā)

5. 'Adud al-Din Ijī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

The Book of Stations in the Science of Theology (from al-Mawāqif fī 'ilm al-kalām)

6. Mīr Sayyid Sharīf Jurjānī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

Commentary on the Stations in Theology (Sharh al-mawāqif)

Treatise on Existence (from Risālat al-wujūd)

7. Sa'd al-Dīn Taftāzānī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

Commentary on the Purposes of the Science of Theology (from Sharh al-maqāsid fī 'ilm al-kalām)

A Commentary on the Principles of Islam (from Fī usūl al-Islām)

PART III. SH'I PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY

Introduction S.H Nasr

1. Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī

Introduction S.H Nasr

The Book of Catharsis (from Tajrīd al-i'tiqād)

2. 'Allāmah Hillī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

Commentary on the Book of Catharsis (from Sharh al-tajrīd)

3. Muhammad Mahdī Narāqī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

The Delight of the Eyes (from Qurrat al-'uyūn)

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Index