AlMaturidi and the Development of Sunni Theology in Samarqand pdf

AlMaturidi and the Development of Sunni Theology in Samarqand By Ulrich Rudolph Translated by Rodrigo Adem

ALMATURIDI AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUNNI THEOLOGY IN SAMARQAND

Book Contents

• The Famous Unknown
• The First Image: al-Māturīdī as Faithful Successor to
• Abū Ḥanīfa
• The Second Image: al-Māturīdī as Eastern Counterpart
• to al-Ashʿarī
• The State of Research and Current Conceptualizations
• Preliminary History and Conditions: The Ḥanafite Tradition in Northeastern Iran

The Foundation and Establishment of Ḥanafite Theology in the Second Eighth and Early Third/Ninth Centuries

• The Preparatory Role of the Murjiʾa
• Abū Ḥanīfa (d /) and the Letters to ʿUthmān al-Battī
• The First Risāla
• The Second Risāla
• Abū Muqātil al-Samarqandī (d /) and the Kitāb al-ʿĀlim
• wa-l-mutaʿallim
• Abū Muṭīʿ al-Balkhī (d /) and the Kitāb al-Fiqh al-absaṭ

Development in the Third/Ninth Century

• Stagnation in Theology and a Lack of Sources: Abū Bakr
• al-Samarqandī (d /–)
• Ḥanafite Elements in Ibn Karrām’s Theology (d /)

The State of Theology during al-Māturīdī’s Lifetime

• Abū Muṭīʿ Makḥūl al-Nasafī (d /) and the Kitāb al-Radd ʿalā
• ahl al-bidaʿ wa-l-ahwāʾ
• Al-Ḥakīm al-Samarqandī (d /) and the Kitāb al-Sawād
• al-aʿẓam
• vi contents

The Emergence of al-Māturīdī

• Life and Activity
• Biographical Reports
• Teachers
• Abū Bakr al-Jūzjānī
• Abū Naṣr al-ʿIyāḍī
• Students
• Abū Aḥmad al-ʿIyāḍī
• Abū l-Ḥasan al-Rustughfanī
• ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Pazdawī

Theological Opponents

• The Wide Spectrum of Polemic
• The Muʿtazilite Challenge
• Abū l-Qāsim al-Balkhī al-Kaʿbī and the Baghdad School
• The Basran School
• Ibn al-Rāwandī
• Muḥammad b Shabīb
• The Ḥanafite Rivals: al-Najjār and the School of Rayy
• The Focal Point of the Discussion: Refutation of the Dualists and the “Dahrīya”
• Works
• Lost Works
• Extant Texts
• The Taʾwīlāt al-Qurʾān or Taʾwīlāt ahl al-sunna
• The Kitāb al-Tawḥīd

Al-Māturīdī’s Theology

• Structures and Their Forerunning Models
• The Structure of the Kitāb al-Tawḥīd
• The Bipartite Nature of the Work
• Possible Sources
• Contents vii

An Outline of al-Māturīdī’s Teachings

• Prolegomena: Epistemology
• The World
• The Contingency of the World
• Al-Māturīdī’s Proofs
• The Background of the Argument
• The Ontological Structure of the World
• Bodies and Accidents
• Natures
• Informing Factors and Exemplary Models
• God
• God’s Existence
• God’s Knowability
• The Rationalistic Position of the Ḥanafites
• Inferring the Unseen from that which is Seen
• God’s Oneness
• The Otherness of the One
• God’s Attributes
• Earlier Ḥanafite Views
• Al-Māturīdī’s Contribution
• The Ambiguous Descriptions of God in the Qurʾān
• Earlier Ḥanafite Views
• Al-Māturīdī’s Contribution
• God’s Wisdom
• Human Beings
• Human Rationality
• Human Actions
• The Conceptualization of the Ḥanafites and the
• Karrāmites
• Al-Māturīdī’s Contribution
• Belief and Sin

Concluding Observations

• Al-Māturīdī’s Position in Islamic Theology
• The Relationship to Abū Ḥanīfa
• The Relationship to al-Ashʿarī
• The Formation of the Māturīdīya
• viii contents

Appendix: Inauthentic and Doubtful Texts

• Inauthentic Texts
• Sharḥ al-Fiqh al-akbar
• Risāla fī l-ʿaqāʾid
• Kitāb al-Tawḥīd
• Risāla fī-mā lā yajūz al-waqf ʿalayhi
• Doubtful Texts
• Fawāʾid
• Bibliography
• Index of People
• Index of Religious and Political Movements
• Index of Arabic Terms

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